South Africa’s Cape Town Copes With Tens of Thousands of Active COVID Cases

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - South Africa's Cape Town is struggling to cope with more than 38,000 active cases of COVID-19, making it the epicenter of the pandemic in Africa's worst-hit country.

The provincial chairman of the Democratic Nursing Organization of South AfrIca, Elenor Roberts, said medical staff members were under immense pressure. "As of now, the situation in our rural areas, it is dire," because there are so many COVID patients who need attention and "so few staff to look after these patients,” Roberts said. She said there were about 13,000 nurses in Western Cape province, far too few to handle the workload.