Study: SA lockdown restrictions far from effective
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At the start of October, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Chines government lauded South Africa's response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Yet data concerning both the spread of the virus and the indirect consequences of the lockdown suggest that the severe restrictions imposed in South Africa, some of the strictest in the world, were far from effective.
We now chat to one of the researchers of the report, Associate Professor at the Institute for Knowledge, University of Johannesburg (UJ) Professor Ben Smart.
Yet data concerning both the spread of the virus and the indirect consequences of the lockdown suggest that the severe restrictions imposed in South Africa, some of the strictest in the world, were far from effective.
We now chat to one of the researchers of the report, Associate Professor at the Institute for Knowledge, University of Johannesburg (UJ) Professor Ben Smart.