Many nations, including South Africa, have seen an increase in COVID-19 outbreaks in their population, including those working in and incarcerated in correctional centres. Responding to COVID-19 in correctional centres is a major challenge, particularly due to overcrowding and limited...
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 ...
Leila Mokaddem, the bank’s director general of the Southern Africa Region, said that the pandemic had left a deep impression among the 13 nations covered by the Southern Africa Economic Outlook. “The magnitude of the socioeconomic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on countries in Southern...
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...
Robert H. Smith School of Business on Friday, April 24th — featured guest speakers from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as the World Bank who addressed “the global implications of the COVID-19 economic impact on developing and low-income countries, with Africa as an ...
unprecedented times. Transmission of communicable diseases like HIV, TB and more recently COVID-19 is underpinned bysocial determinants. The socio-economic impact of COVID-19 has exposed vulnerable populations because basic, first line defences such as water and sanitation are lacking in many ...
When South Africa entered a hard lockdown on 27 March, the government was globally recognized for taking tough steps to "flatten the curve" and keep COVID-19 infections low. Four months on, our research, using data from a broader national survey, shows l
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...
Credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings said in a report on March 31 that South Africa's economy is forecast to contract by 2.7 percent in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads globally. Businesses in Ghana, one of the world's top-ten fastest growing economies, are also facing tough tim...
This paper aims to present the leisure pursuits in South Africa as observed during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the world was hit by the pandemic as early as January 2020, South Africa recorded its first case on 5 March 2020. A five-stage lockdown was introduced to flatten the curve and...