{"id":5196,"date":"2020-06-10T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T14:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:06:59","slug":"social-scientists-views-on-covid-19-in-southern-africa-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/blog\/social-scientists-views-on-covid-19-in-southern-africa-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Social scientists\u2019 views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (13)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Long_Street_20200401_131931-min-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Long_Street_20200401_131931-min-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Long_Street_20200401_131931-min-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Long_Street_20200401_131931-min-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Discott, &nbsp;<em>A view down Long Street, Cape Town during the COVID 19 lockdown in April 2020<\/em>,&nbsp;CC BY-SA (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0<\/a>)<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Africa, a relatively unscathed continent?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it is of course too early to celebrate victory, several researchers see signs of hope in the relatively low progression of the coronavirus on the African continent and, for those most affected such as South Africa, in the capacity to manage the health crisis with some effectiveness. Analyses explaining these relative successes examine a number of possible causes in the demographic structure of the countries concerned, in their recent history (management of the Ebola crisis, for instance), in specific health factors (cross-immunity), and in the precocity of the measures taken. It remains to be seen whether these assessments will be borne out in reality in the coming months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>READ<\/strong> :<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.uct.ac.za\/article\/-2020-04-28-can-sas-achievement-in-containing-covid-19-lead-to-sustained-successa\">Alan Hirsch, &#8220;Can SA\u2019s achievement in containing COVID-19 lead to sustained success?&#8221;, News UCT, 28 avril 2020<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LISTEN :<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franceculture.fr\/emissions\/radiographies-du-coronavirus-la-chronique\/radiographies-du-coronavirus-du-mardi-12-mai-2020#xtor=CS1-901\">Nicolas Martin, &#8220;L&#8217;Afrique \u00e9chappe-t-elle \u00e0 la pand\u00e9mie ?&#8221;, France Culture, 12 Mai 2020<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa, a relatively unscathed continent? While it is of course too early to celebrate victory, several researchers see signs of hope in the relatively low progression of the coronavirus on the African continent and, for those most affected such as South Africa, in the capacity to manage the health crisis with some effectiveness. Analyses explaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-social-scientists-views-on-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5199,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5196\/revisions\/5199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}