NELSON MANDELA BAY - CITY RECORDS 17 NEW COVID-19 RELATED DEATHS ACROSS THE METRO IN 24 HOURS

A total of 17 people have died due to COVID-19 in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in the last 24 hours.

Acting Mayor Councillor Tshonono Buyeye said the latest report tabled by the Department of Health on Tuesday, 1 December 2020, during the City’s COVID-19 Disaster Management Forum meeting does not paint a good picture for the City.

“We have learnt that in the past 24 hours in our hospitals, we recorded 17 deaths and 14 of those occurred in the private sector and 3 in the public sector. Life Mercantile Hospital recorded a total of 10 deaths yesterday and St Georges had 4 and Dora Nginza recorded 3 deaths for yesterday alone.”

“We would like to send condolences to the families and friends of those who have lost their loved ones. They are in our thoughts and as a country we are in mourning with them,” he said.

With the new 17 deaths reported, the City’s total deaths now stand at 1788 as at 30 November 2020 while the active cases were 3521.

“We would like to encourage residents to seek the government quarantine sites if the situation is not conducive in their homes for them to quarantine or self-isolate. We do not wish to lose more people in our City to this deadly virus. The numbers of patients in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) are increasing everyday. We are told 109 patients are currently in ICU’s with 95 in private hospitals and 14 patients in public facilities. A total of 43 patients were on ventilators with 42 of them in private hospitals.”

“We once again call on our residents to take this virus seriously. Each one of us by now knows of someone who has died due to COVID-19. It is painful to see so many people die when some of these deaths could have been avoided if everyone complied with the regulations” Mayor Buyeye said.