South AfricaCovid-19 is impacting on food systems and food security around the world, including in South Africa, revealed most starkly in rising food prices and increasing food insecurity. Debates on what kind o
This prompted South African authorities to implement physical distancing, self-isolation, closure of non-essential services, schools, travelling restrictions and recursive national lockdowns to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. This explanatory study sought to review the effects of COVID-19 in the ...
In South African COVID-19 Ward, Medics Battle Worst Infection Wave Yet More Reuters Soemaya Raffie reacts while being treated at a makeshift hospital run by charity organisation The Gift of the Givers, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Johannesburg, South...
Simultaneously, required strengths of intervention measures are strongly debated because containing COVID-19 in favor of the weak health care system largely conflicts with socio-economic hardships. Here we analyze the impact of interventions on outbreak dynamics for South Africa, exhibiting the largest ...
In South Africa, this will be a major spoke in the wheel of government’s ambition to increase employment in agriculture and agro-processing by a million jobs by 2030. Now, in 2020, we are faced with Covid-19. The fortunate thing is that science has progressed tremendously with respect ...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions to curb the spread of the virus have impacted individuals, communities, and economies worldwide, and the full extent of the impact will not be known for years to come. In South Africa, the pandemic started in March 2020 with a declared state of ...
We assessed the impact of the pandemic on TB diagnostics at primary healthcare clinics (PHCs) during the different stages of COVID-19 in eThekwini district, South Africa. Data from the District Health Information System (DHIS) were used to conduct an interrupted time series analysis that asses...
An education-focused COVID-19 timeline This section presents a timeline of events relevant to COVID-19 in South Africa, and specifically includes events relevant to the education system. The main events, listed in Table 1, were used to assess the possible influences on electricity usage in scho...
In Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic could have a devastating impact on both health and economies if it is not contained effectively. Governments and their partners need to act now to mobilize a large-scale ramp-up of health-system capacity and muster the resources needed...
Understanding the existing social context is crucial in making sense of the impact of COVID-19 on South Africa, an enormously complex society. While it is a middle-income country, alongside of countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, and Malaysia, and therefore has access to resources and in...