Based on a large national survey conducted during South Africa's lockdown period, we find that women have been affected disproportionately by the crisis. While women comprised less than half of the employed in February, they experienced two-thirds of...
Secondly, before thinking about stringent lockdowns, first check the economic health of your population. Make sure that the basic capacities are in place, for them to be able to cope during the period of lockdown, he says. "For a country with high levels of inequality like South Africa, ...
Employing the literature review, the paper elaborates on the nature of gender-based violence reported in South Africa and further highlights how gender-based violence has increased during the lockdown period. In this paper, I use the social dominance theory to understand the escalation of gender-...
The objective of this study was to compare the effect of the Covid-19 lockdown and the alcohol restriction on the number of cases that presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with the same time period two years prior. The method used was a retrospective review of medical records, directl...
The decline in economic activity precipitated by the spread of COVID-19 and ensuing lockdown in South Africa is also affecting the country's electricity supply dynamics. The power outages that were disrupting the economy ...
South Africa's stringent lockdown earlier this year may have saved lives by containing the spread of COVID-19. New COVID-19 infections have been declining and lockdown restrictions relaxed. But this has triggered fears of a new wave of infections.
The number of patients treated in the hospitals during the same early period of each wave differed (2351 in wave 4 vs maximum 6342 in wave 3); however, 68% to 69% of patients presenting to the emergency department with a...
"The country now has exited the State of Disaster as initially indicated by the government, however, the COVID-19 disease remains with us and continues to spread and infect people with rising numbers in other countries, forcing the authorities to re-initiate or re-introduce lockdowns as part...
2.2. Study period Accurate study period selection is a fundamental step to correctly estimate the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on air quality, and is based on a complete knowledge of the epidemic development and control in Lanzhou City. The lockdown in this study involves three time perio...
The COVID-19 lockdown has had a marked effect on citizen science projects, such as the Southern African Bird Atlas Project, SABAP2. With their mobility severely constrained, most citizen scientists in South Africa were not able to submit full protocol lists during the Alert Level 5 lockdown....