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Unmasking the state of basic education in South Africa
(José Frantz, 2021)
The Covid-19 lockdown period laid bare the fibre of South African
society: poverty, homelessness, welfare dependence, domestic violence,
police and military brutality, healthcare and hunger are all suddenly
under national ...
An evidence-based approach to learning and teaching during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
(José Frantz, 2021)
On 5 March 2020, South Africa’s Health Minister confirmed that
the first case of Covid-19 had been detected in the country and on 15
March the President announced a national state of disaster, followed
by various measures ...
The pandemic of online research in times of COVID-19
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of online research using rating scales. While this approach can be useful, two of the major challenges affecting the quality of this type of research include selection bias and ...
Sink or swim? How Covid-19 and the responses to it have affected small-scale fishers
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2021)
This policy brief reports findings from research investigating the impacts of Covid-19 regulations and mitigation measures on small-scale fishers in the Western Cape, South Africa. The researchers conducted 47 in-depth ...
Understanding varying COVID-19 mortality rates reported in Africa compared to Europe, Americas and Asia
(Pub med, 2021-07)
The SARS-CoV-2 infection, which causes the COVID-19 disease, has impacted every nation on the globe, albeit disproportionately. African countries have seen lower infection and mortality rates than most countries in the ...
Lessons learnt during covid-19 lockdown: A qualitative study of south african families
(Elsevier, 2021-11)
In a pandemic, such as COVID-19, with every single person struggling to deal with the
unknown, it is often within the family that support is found but it is also within the family that
circumstances, contexts and behaviours ...
Operational framework for rural hospitals during a pandemic
(Taylor and Francis, 2021)
It is now evident that a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has developed. The
unfortunate reality is that those in rural areas may be impacted the hardest. Ethical decision
making may look the same for rural areas as ...
Doctoral supervision and COVID-19: Autoethnographies from four faculty across three continents
(2021)
Doctoral students represent the fresh and creative intellectuals needed to address the many social, economic, political, health care, and education disparities that have been highlighted by the 2020 pandemic. Our work as ...
Clinical condition, resuscitation and medical-psychological care of severe COVID-19 patients(part 1)
(Elsevier, 2021)
This interview covers the clinical and psychological condition of patients afflicted with severe COVID-19
and their pulmonary rehabilitation process. For these patients, symptoms are medically urgent and lifethreatening. ...