South Africa was aiming to immunise 41-million people by the end of the year in order to reach herd immunity, the point at which Covid-19 was no longer spreading.
But this level of community protection is hard to achieve when the goal posts keep moving with the emergence of new variants
Instead, South Africa is now rethinking its plan and moving towards a containment strategy to reduce strain on the country’s health system
Achieving full community protection, or herd immunity, against Covid-19 through vaccinations by 2022 is no longer on the table for South Africa. The country now sets its sights on a less lofty goal called “containment”, which aims to immunise just enough people so that Covid hospital admissions put no more strain on the health system than any other illness would, experts say.
Study also finds that teachers are at no higher risk from the virus than the general population 12 May 2021 - 20:00 By Prega Govender and Kgaugelo Masweneng
The basic education department has agreed with a study’s findings that SA’s primary schoolchildren who attended no-fee schools last year learned 50-75% less than what they normally do.
The National Income Dynamics Study-Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (Nids-Cram), released on Wednesday, is run by researchers from the universities of Stellenbosch, Cape Town and the Witwatersrand.
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In particular, the rate of job finding among youth is especially high. (iStock)
The Covid-19 pandemic has created a general idea of working from home where functionally possible. But not all jobs can be performed from home, leading to a higher risk for those workers.
This is one of the problems facing SA s workforce that was noted in the the latest National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM), which was released on Wednesday. There’s more to this story Subscribe to News24 and get access to our
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Women have been disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 crisis and in SA, women s employment was particularly hard-hit by the initial lockdown. Women also experienced a slower recovery than men as the economy started reopening.
This is one of the findings of the fourth wave report by the National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM), which was released on Wednesday. This latest report looks at the impact of Covid-19 on the economy and society.
The report also found that men are less able to work from home than women. Demographically, non-white race groups appear to have lower probabilities of working from home relative to white people. Those living in informal housing are less likely to work from home than those living in a house or flat.