Lockdown
The future of fashion? SA Fashion Week’s digital makeover
Acclaimed designer Gert-Johan Coetzee said the fashion industry should draw positives from the COVID-19 lockdown and find more sustainable ways of working.
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ANALYSIS: Lockdown didn’t work in SA: Why it shouldn’t happen again
The data concerning both the spread of the virus and the indirect consequences of the lockdown indicates that no similar action is justified moving forward.
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Wales announces two-week lockdown to stop virus surge
Under the new rules, everyone will be required to stay at home with only critical workers expected to go to their workplaces.
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UK govt urged to lockdown after 'losing control' of virus outbreak
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a three-tiered system categorising areas of England by rates of infection, to try to simplify a complex web of local restrictions.
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660 homeless people in eThekwini have stopped using drugs, say municipality
At the beginning of the had lockdown in March, the city was forced to find shelter for more than 2,000 people living on the streets.
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CoCT urges citizens to comply with COVID protocols to help avoid second wave
As more members of the public are allowed to roam around and regain a sense of what life once was, more people are no longer wearing their masks in public or maintaining social distancing.
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No need for children to remain at home, says Gauteng Education MEC Lesufi
Gauteng has recorded an 18% school dropout rate this year with the highest impact in grade R.
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Passengers grateful as first international flights touch down in CT, Joburg
International travelers who arrived at Cape Town International Airport on Thursday said that they made use of the first commercial flight back to the city for varying reasons.
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Spain publishes decree for partial lockdown of Madrid
Currently that is only Madrid, which is struggling with a rate of 780 cases per 100,000 people, compared with just 300 per 100,000 in the rest of Spain -- which in itself is the highest in the European Union.
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Domestic violence spiked in Zim during two-month lockdown - report
Most of Zimbabwe’s lockdown measures have now been lifted but the scale of what most women and children went through at the hands of those within their households is only now becoming clear.
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Lockdown has exposed tech gulf between SA and rest of the world, say experts
Before the pandemic, President Cyril Ramaphosa had big plans for the fourth industrial revolution in the country, improving people's lives through technology. But the lockdown has exposed just how far behind South Africa is compared with other countries.
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COVID-19 operation to get tavern owners to comply yields results in EC
The intervention is aimed at strengthening measures that will help curb the spread of the virus and led to the confiscation of weapons, secondhand goods and drugs.
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Britain to impose new virus curbs as WHO issues grim warning
The tally of 1,998,897 infections was "the highest number of reported cases in a single week since the beginning of the epidemic", the WHO said, adding that the number of deaths fell compared with the previous week.
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Stranded babies, sobbing parents: Pandemic splits surrogates from families
China banned all forms of surrogacy –- both commercial and altruistic -- in 2001 due to concerns poor women were being exploited.
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Restaurant industry says it’s not out of trouble despite eased lockdown
According to one of the latest surveys available, up to 30% of the country's restaurants had to close their doors permanently due to the pandemic.
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New Zealand eases virus controls, eyes elimination
Ardern announced New Zealand would from late Monday move down to virus level one in its four-tier alert system, except for Auckland, where the country's most recent outbreak emerged.
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Contralesa: Continued suspension of initiations will have grave repercussions
Stringent restriction implemented to halt the spread of the coronavirus have been eased to allow more social and economic activity to resume.
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Don’t be complacent, Dlamini-Zuma warns SA ahead of level 1 lockdown
Dlamini-Zuma was speaking during a briefing by the national coronavirus command council on Friday afternoon where she outlined guideline for level one of the lockdown.
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Lockdown level 1: Travel within Africa allowed, other countries 'situational'
Dlamini-Zuma said the collective sacrifices of all South Africans have enabled the government to move the country to level one to allow for more economic activity including international travel.
