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Bulawayo records 155 COVID-19 cumulative deaths
21 Jan 2021 at 06:37hrs | Views
BULAWAYO metropolitan province has so far recorded a cumulative 155 deaths and 4 368 infections of the deadly COV-ID-19 virus.
This comes on the backdrop of the country having recorded an unprecedented record high of 60 COVID-19 deaths within 24 hours on Monday.
Acting Bulawayo provincial medical director Welcome Mlilo told Southern Eye yesterday that as of Tuesday, there were 26 new cases, 4 368 cumulative cases, four new deaths, 155 cumulative deaths, 110 new recoveries, 3 600 cumulative recoveries, 26 new active cases, 613 cumulative new cases and four institutional deaths.
"Bulawayo metropolitan province, like the rest of the country, continues to record a high number of COVID-19 cases. The number of admissions at the hospitals due to COVID-19 continue to go up and we are also recording a notable number of COVID19-related deaths," he said.
Mlilo said: "We are however, yet to experience shortage of hospital beds for COVID-19 admissions in the province."
He said the United Bulawayo Hospital had shouldered the biggest proportion of COVID-19 admissions to date.
Thorngrove COVID-19 treatment facility, Mlilo added, was now also online, further increasing the province's admission capacity.
He revealed that Ekusileni Hospital was not yet operational and work was in progress.
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Health minister, has refuted claims the country's hospitals are overwhelmed following a surge in COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the year.
He accused social media of communicating falsehoods that public and private hospitals had run out of beds and equipment.
This comes on the backdrop of the country having recorded an unprecedented record high of 60 COVID-19 deaths within 24 hours on Monday.
Acting Bulawayo provincial medical director Welcome Mlilo told Southern Eye yesterday that as of Tuesday, there were 26 new cases, 4 368 cumulative cases, four new deaths, 155 cumulative deaths, 110 new recoveries, 3 600 cumulative recoveries, 26 new active cases, 613 cumulative new cases and four institutional deaths.
"Bulawayo metropolitan province, like the rest of the country, continues to record a high number of COVID-19 cases. The number of admissions at the hospitals due to COVID-19 continue to go up and we are also recording a notable number of COVID19-related deaths," he said.
Mlilo said: "We are however, yet to experience shortage of hospital beds for COVID-19 admissions in the province."
Thorngrove COVID-19 treatment facility, Mlilo added, was now also online, further increasing the province's admission capacity.
He revealed that Ekusileni Hospital was not yet operational and work was in progress.
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Health minister, has refuted claims the country's hospitals are overwhelmed following a surge in COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the year.
He accused social media of communicating falsehoods that public and private hospitals had run out of beds and equipment.
Source - newsday
