⁍ South Africa faces a high risk of resurging coronavirus infections that may lead to a review by the council deciding on lockdowns.

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⁍ New cases rose by 42% in Western Cape province in the last two weeks.

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⁍ The popular tourist city was originally the epicentre of South Africa’s first wave of infections.

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– South Africa’s health minister says a “super-spreader event” at a Cape Town bar is to blame for a 42% spike in new cases in the country’s Western Cape province over the past two weeks, Reuters reports. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says the spike “will inform the recommendations that the Health Department makes to the National Coronavirus Council,” the body that sets the levels of lockdown restrictions for the country, which has the highest number of coronavirus cases on the continent at more than 700,000 cases. South Africa restricted movement, economic activities, and the sale of alcohol and tobacco for six months after a severe outbreak of the virus killed more than 200 people in the first half of the year. The country eased lockdown restrictions at the beginning of October after the rate of new cases fell, but Mkhize says the increase in cases “will inform the recommendations that the Health Department makes to the National Coronavirus Council.”