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While some men reported spending more time caring for children, an analysis of National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey data found that a bigger share of women devoted more time to childcare during South Africa's Covid-19 lockdown.In interviews with about 7,000 adult…

The release of South Africa’s official unemployment numbers for the second quarter of 2020 (April to June) has been delayed.According to an analysis of National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey data, women accounted for the bulk of net job losses. This is “because women were…

While wearing a face mask is compulsory in Nigeria, no sanction for failing to do so has been announced.More: Has Nigeria imposed a N20,000 fine or 6-month jail term for refusal to wear a face mask?

The Nigerian government has not released official numbers for ventilators. One unverified estimate, published in the media in March 2020, put the number at “less than 500”. Subsequent additions include 50 ventilators procured through the United Nations. There have also been reported efforts to…

The research on which the claim of an increased risk is supposedly based, was done before the discovery of the new coronavirus and Covid-19. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has “strongly recommended” that South Africans get flu shots to prevent flu from putting pressure on the…

Two measures are relevant to this question: how many people someone with Covid-19 infects and how long it takes to do so.Experts have calculated the basic reproduction number (R0) of Covid-19 to estimate how contagious the disease is. R0 is the number of people an infected person is likely to…

There were 250,687 cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, as of 10 July 2020.The World Health Organization (WHO) keeps a tally of global confirmed Covid-19 cases, which is updated daily.You can find the numbers per country here and here.