KAROO NEWS - The Inxuba Yethemba Municipality's (IYM) health care services, in partnership with the Eastern Cape Health Department, is fighting to keep the Covid-19 crises under control in two of its towns, Middelburg and Cradock.
On Tuesday morning 23 June, Mayor Noncedo Zonke declared that at the nine measuring points within the IYM, there are 206 positive Covid-19 cases, with 127 active.
Middelburg alone on Tuesday showed 83 positive cases, with 35 active. In Cradock, 18 of the 24 recorded cases were active. There were thus far two Covid-19 deaths recorded in each town. This is half of the eight recorded deaths in the IYM district.
Several clinics, municipal offices and both towns police stations were recently closed, decontaminated and reopened, just to be occasionally closed again for decontamination.
On the closure of the institutions, Zonke said President Cyril Ramaphosa declared that we must prepare our ourselves to live with this virus for a year or even more. The lockdown was not introduced to bring life to a sudden halt, but to reduce the rate of the novel coronavirus infections in our country.
Zonke urged all IYM residents not to panic.
"We will ensure that we stick to all measures imposed upon us," she said.
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