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Western Cape showing early signs of end of the third wave

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The Western Cape has, over the past week, shown a 12% decrease in its positivity-rate, indicating early signs of the end of the third wave of the pandemic.

The provincial Head of Health, Dr Keith Cloete says the province’s hospitalization-rate has also shown a gradual week-on-week decline of 8%.

Covid-19 deaths also decreased from an average of around 108 deaths per day, to less than 100 deaths per day.

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