How the pandemic lockdown in South Africa affected mental health
WHEN SARS-CoV-2 emerged in South Africa, the country took measures to restrict people’s movements and activities, to slow the spread
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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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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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South Africa has lifted most COVID-19 restrictions. But risks remain
IN early April South Africa ended most of the mandatory measures it put in place to curb the spread of
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COVID: a two-year journey through lockdowns, lives lost and life-saving research
IT’S been two years since the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and its disease, COVID-19 were declared a global public health emergency.
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The coronavirus in Nigeria has its own family history: keeping track is vital
NIGERIA recorded its first case of SARS-CoV-2 on 27 February 2020, and within five months at least one case had
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New COVID data: South Africa has arrived at the recovery stage of the pandemic
A recently published South African study set out to determine sero-positivity against SARS-CoV-2 before the fourth wave of COVID-19, in
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COVID infection of three lions and a puma in private South African zoo points to need for wider surveillance
Authors ADRIANO MENDES, Post-Doctoral Research fellow, University of Pretoria AMY STRYDOM, Scientist, German Federal Institute of Risk Assessment KATJA KOEPPEL,
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How Africa’s entrepreneurs are handling the continent’s challenges: new book
I carried out a little exercise on Google. I searched “Africa”, and then “African countries”. Top among the 3.4 billion
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T-cells: the superheroes in the battle against omicron
OMICRON is spreading rapidly throughout the world, with experts claiming that 40% of the global population will be infected within
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