Although Eastern Cape still has a capacity of hospital beds, the province faces a number of challenges in dealing with the surge of cases in the second wave. Challenges include shortages of nurses with experience in intensive care units. The Eastern Cape provincial government briefed the media Tuesday afternoon. Premier Oscar Mabuyane has welcomed the vaccine rollout plan announced by the department of health. For more on this, we are now joined on Zoom by Dr Adrian Puren, who is the head of the Centre for HIV AND AIDS at the National Institute For Communicable Diseases.
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