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Wearing masks, handwashing and sanitising were adopted quite quickly by South Africans. Xabiso Mkhabela/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Spike in COVID-19 cases points to gaps in South Africa’s response

The first step of any public health response must be prevention. Preventing new infections and containing the pandemic protects health systems from getting close to collapse.
World Day for Physical Activity is April 6. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, many peoples’ physical exercise routines have been disrupted. (Shutterstock)

A year into the pandemic, COVID-19 exercise slump has hit women harder

Research shows that the gaps in physical exercise have widened substantially between men and women, whites and non-whites, rich and poor and educated and less educated: especially during the pandemic.

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