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Record number of excess deaths in first week of 2021
More than 20,000 South Africans died between 30 December 2020 and 5 January 2021, according to the Burden of Disease Research Unit at the South African Medical Research Council. A record 10,907 were excess deaths from natural causes – the vast majority of which are likely attributed to Covid-19, says the council. Unnatural causes – such as accidents and murders – fell below the prediction. As James Stent and Nathan Geffen write:
“By comparison, in the worst years of the Aids epidemic (in the 2000s), there were at most about 6,000 excess deaths due to the disease each week. But this went on year after year, while the current Covid-19 surge will subside in the short-term.” ....

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Researchers highlight Africa's Covid-19 innovations a...


Despite African countries being wholly unprepared for the Covid-19 pandemic, their swift, early and innovative responses meant they were able to ward off an initial rapid spread of the virus. This is according to a new study of Covid-19 responses in South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria and Kenya conducted by Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy. 
Nonetheless, the study found that the resulting economic hardship and impending waves of infection mean the countries will have to re-strategise constantly and swiftly even with a vaccine in hand. To contribute to this undertaking, the university has launched an initiative which will take innovations which worked in one African country and tailor it to suit another’s needs. In addition, it is on a mission to develop “new ways of solving big problems” immediately.  ....

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