How a desire to help led me to track COVID numbers and make sense of them through graphs
AS COVID took hold in South Africa, daily case numbers grew. But the numbers people were seeing online or on
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COVID is no gamble: physics-inspired simulations predict waves in four countries
AS a physicist, I am trained to look for patterns in data. For example, the motion of the tiniest particles
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South Africa has entered a new phase of the COVID pandemic: what that means
CONFIRMED cases of SARS-CoV-2 have been increasing in South Africa in recent weeks. This has been largely driven by two
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When Africans asked for COVID shots, they didn’t get them. Now they don’t want them
EDWARD MCALLISTER and COOPER INVEEN IT”S noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while
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WHO’s warning to Africa: Omicron sub-variants drive Covid-19 surge
SUB-VARIANTS of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and relaxation of public health measures are driving a current surge in infections
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S.Africa’s new COVID cases cross 10,000 for first time since January
SOUTH AFRICA’S National Institute for Communicable Diseases reported 10,017 new COVID-19 cases, the first day since January the institute has
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How South Africa is integrating COVID into routine care for mothers and babies
COVID-19 has had a direct impact on maternal mortality. Pregnant women are not at an increased risk of becoming infected
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Making COVID vaccines in Africa: advances and sustainability issues
Author BENJAMIN KAGINA, University of Cape Town THE history of vaccine manufacturing capacity in Africa dates back to 1881 when
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How COVID controls hit farmers in 7 low-income countries, most in Africa
SINCE its emergence more than two years ago, COVID-19 has reached nearly every corner of the globe. It has infected
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COVID led to 15 million deaths globally, not the 5 million reported – WHO
JENNIFER RIGBY ALMOST three times as many people have died as a result of COVID-19 as official data show, according
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