In a week, the number of South Africans who have contracted the Covid-19 coronavirus has gone from one to 17 — the number the minister of health announced on Thursday. That seems like a small jump. Statistically, however, it is a big increase.Data Desk has run a basic growth rate calculation using two rates — that of the current spread in the country and that of the average rate of infection in the rest of the world .
A growth in the virus of that scale has not been seen, with global infections now passing 120000. There is agreement, however, that there will be an uptick in the number of infections in South Africa. The majority of people infected do recover and the disease tends to affect people with pre-existing medical conditions and those older than 70 the most.
In South Africa, the government has been at pains to say there is no need for panic. Health experts have similarly been cautious with making predictions about the rate of infection, explaining that the country has a robust public health system for contact tracing and laboratories are well equipped to provide testing and supportive health care.
South Africa’s rate of growth is currently much lower than that in the worst-affected countries after China.In Iran and Italy, the growth was initially slow, but then appeared to double every day after 100 cases. “How do you ask the poorest of the poor to self-quarantine and wash their hands when there are scarce water resources?” she asked.asked Dr Lwazi Manzi, the spokesperson for the minister of health, these and other questions and how the state would deal with the spread in such areas, what precautions can be taken for the spread not to reach such areas and how the infection rate would grow.
Luckily white people go to private hospitals, and black man cannot afford that, so the virus won't spread
Just a correction: Dr Leaza Jernberg has a PhD in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand. I have previously lectured at the University of the Witwatersrand. I am currently an independent researcher and consultant, who focuses International Security.
Yep. The time to act was last week. Shut schools and ban games ASAP. Mandate work from home where possible
The ANC is selling us for the R8 million they will receive from America for the Corona virus .That's how cheap our lives are .
A STUBBED TOE is overwhelming to the public health department..... Unless it's tender money
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