South African Leader Lifts Lockdown Restrictions After COVID-19 Infections Fall More Reuters FILE PHOTO: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa visits the COVID-19 treatment facilities at the NASREC Expo Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa April 24, 2020. Jerome Delay/Pool...
Government lockdowns associated with the global COVID-19 pandemic can address this gap since lockdowns are effectively manipulations of human presence in ecosystems at scales unachievable otherwise. We illustrate this using a study on shorebirds in an urban South African sandy beach ecosystem. D...
Gender-based violence (GBV) has always been an issue of concern in South Africa and Globally. This problem of gender-based violence is currently exacerbated due to the lockdown restrictions. Women and children are targets for Covid-19 related frustrations as gender-based violence reports increase...
In this paper we evaluate the change in energy demand in five public schools in South Africa with changes in occupancy due to the COVID-19-imposed lockdowns. We make recommendations to carry these savings into the everyday operation of the schools, and estimate the savings for forthcoming ...
This study focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on identity, relationships and psychological wellbeing among British South Asian gay men (BSAGM).
Indeed, it's no secret that South Africa’s wine (and closely linked tourism industries) have had a hard time of late. A succession of four Covid-driven prohibitions on the sale of domestic alcohol, combined with the international travel restrictions, has done significant harm to the Cape'...
J. et al. Access to primary healthcare during lockdown measures for COVID-19 in rural South Africa: An interrupted time series analysis. BMJ Open 10(10), e043763 (2020). Article PubMed Google Scholar Ahmed, T. et al. The effect of COVID-19 on maternal newborn and child health (...
Seaborne manganese ore prices soared following the extension to the lockdown in South Africa by an additional two weeks to the end of April in response to the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Expectations of tightening supplies resulted in deals for high-grade ore being concluded at higher ...
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of south China reported 56 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases from 4 p.m. on February 6 to 12 a.m. on February 7. The region has registered 99 infections in three days, all in the city of Baise. Officials said two of the confirmed ca...
Maharashtra has 516 confirmed cases of COVID-19--the disease caused by the coronavirus--and 26 people have died. While the government does plan to review the lockdown, set to end on April 14, three senior officials told Reuters this will depend on an assessment of the situation in each ...