SOUTH AFRICA - Cape Town - Coronavirus - CTICC Intermediate Care Facility or Field Hospital (Video) (Lxd)

South Africa - Cape Town - 26 May 2020 - Coronavirus - Theodore Abrahams, facility manager at CTICC. CTICC(Cape Town International Convention Centre) Intermediate Care Facility with 800 plus beds. It is still under construction with plans to open mid June. The Portfolio Committee on Health and the Select Committee on Health and Social Services will this week embark on a joint oversight visit to the Western Cape and KwaZulu Natal provinces to assess the state of quarantine sites and readiness of public hospitals to deal with Covid-19. Also, the committees will visit private health facilities in those provinces.
Since interprovincial travel is not allowed under the level 4 lockdown, the committees have deployed their members to conduct oversight visits in provinces where they reside. The committees have prioritised provinces with high numbers of confirmed Covid-19 cases.
The provinces that will be visited are Western Cape, which of 24 May stands at 14 740 confirmed Covid-19 cases and KwaZulu Natal with 1 815 cases. Courtney Africa/African News Agency(ANA) (Lxd)