How does South Africa’s obesity rate compare globally?

The most recent statistics recorded by the South African Police Service (SAPS) for the first quarter of 2022 reveal that three police stations in KwaZulu-Natal have become a hotbed of murders in South Africa. In 2021/22Kwazulu Natal recorded the highest murder rate with 1,682 murders – an...

In the first quarter of 2022, a total of 898 women and 306 children were murdered in South Africa, according to the most recent statistics from the South African Police Service (SAPS).In 2020/21, a total of 2,655 women were murdered in South Africa. This is a 1.5% decrease from the previ...

InKenya, as of 30 May 2022, there have been324,768confirmed cases of Covid-19 with5,651deaths, reported to WHO.Based on Kenya’s 2022 population estimates (56.2 million), this amounts to 0.58 new cases per 100,000 people. ...

While there has been no official data on the number of ventilators that are available in Nigeria, it is estimated there were 450 ventilators at the start of the pandemic. For a country with a population of about 200 million people, an extrapolation using the figure would mean that there were just ab...

As of 30 May 2022, Ghana had161,370confirmed cases of Covid-19 with1,445deaths, reported to WHO.As of22 May 2022, a total of16,122,862vaccine doses have been administered. ...

Research by the World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations evaluated the survival of the Covid-19 virus on different surfaces and reported that the virus can remain viable for up to 72 hours on plastic and stainless steel, up to four hours on copper, and up...