South Africa deploys army medics to COVID-hit Gauteng province

The deployment comes as country enters a third wave and new daily cases double over the past two weeks.

South Africa is deploying army medical personnel to its commercial hub and most populous province to help health workers battle a surge in coronavirus, the government said on Friday. South Africa, the worst-hit country in the continent, has entered a third COVID wave, with new daily cases doubling over the past two weeks. Gauteng province – home to the administrative capital, Pretoria, and financial hub Johannesburg – is the outbreak’s current epicentre, accounting for about 60 percent of the latest daily increase.