Thank you. Madam Speaker, indeed we are very grateful for the support of the Cuban doctors who have come all the way from Cuba. We have almost 217 of them who have joined us in South Africa to give us reinforcement. Over the weekend, they were distributed to all the provinces. Indeed there is a group of 28 who have been dispatched to the Western Cape. I must say that they have been highly warmly received. You will see in some of the photos where the staff and the MECs were actually receiving them. They are coming to reinforce the work that has been in the Western Cape.
I must say this team in the Western Cape, they are doing their best to try and contain in fact the outbreak of the infection. Therefore, they will be focussing on the public health side focussing on sub districts and the metro in the Western Cape.
Cape Town has been subdivided into about 8 zones where they will be getting teams focussing into a catchments area of a cluster of wards. So, these teams are already in place. Right now, they have been deployed to go into the pildo hospital so that they can assist in the management of the patients who have already been tried and are being put aside for the treatment of Covid-19.
We remain very grateful for the support. We also are very pleased to see that they are seamlessly integrated to the teams in the Western Cape. A lot of work is going on in the Western Cape. We are giving lot of support and reinforcement because South Africa has to contain the pandemic in the Western Cape. We must succeed everywhere else. We need to stop the rapid increase in the Western Cape so that we can use the experience to go to other parts of the country. Thank you.