COVID-19: The South African experience

The coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic affected the countries differently. South Africa is a middle-income country with a struggling economy and a resource-constrained public healthcare system. Three aspects of the pandemic in South Africa are examined, the lockdown and its effect on personal freedom...

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Published in:Interventional neuroradiology 2021-10, Vol.27 (1_suppl), p.50-53
Main Authors: Taylor, Allan, Feuvre, David Le, Taylor, Bettina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communicable Disease Control
COVID-19
Humans
Pandemics
Part II
SARS-CoV-2
South Africa - epidemiology
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Summary:The coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic affected the countries differently. South Africa is a middle-income country with a struggling economy and a resource-constrained public healthcare system. Three aspects of the pandemic in South Africa are examined, the lockdown and its effect on personal freedoms, how health care resources were used and the novel stratification of health workers into vulnerability categories. It is a perspective written after experiencing the first pandemic peak in 2020.
ISSN:1591-0199
2385-2011
DOI:10.1177/15910199211035905