The report suggests that infrastructure and support services would have to be put in place urgently to deal with the situation.
However, it warns that based on the amount of hospital beds in the province, the Eastern Cape was not able to to manage the demands of the pandemic.
“Unless capabilities are exponentially and rapidly increased, the province will experience a situation where the demand will be exceeding supply.”
The report predicts that based on projections, demand for hospital beds will outstrip supply by early to mid-July.
It would appear from the data that the lockdown did not produce the required increase in capacity in the Eastern Cape to deal with the future demand.