South African hospitals overran by COVID-19 patients
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH African hospitals are being overwhelmed by the ever-rising number of COVID-19 patients with some institutions forced to convert parking garages into wards. Hospitals across South Africa - both in the private and public sector - are battling with patients in a country where over 1.2-million people have been infected and over 33 163 have died from the deadly virus. In an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19, South Africa is currently on lockdown Level 3, in terms of which alcohol sales have been banned, public gathering outlawed, beaches closed and funerals restricted to 50 people.…
