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The South African Police Service's Annual Report recorded 19,904 murders in 2020/21, a 6.7% decrease from the 2019/20 figure of 21,341. Of those victims, 2,655 were women and 16,367 were men. ...

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...

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...

Herd immunity is the indirect protection from an infectious disease when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection. The share of people who need to be immune in order to achieve herd immunity varies with each disease. The proportion of the pop...

Thetotal number of laboratory-confirmed cases stood at 3,954,971, as of 30 May 2022. 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. ...

There is no data available on the current number of Covid-19 cases in Pretoria, but according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, as of 28 May 2022 there were 1,307,007 confirmed cases in Gauteng. ...

As of 27 May 2022, Lagos had the largest number of Covid-19 cases with 99,466 lab-confirmed cases. ...

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...