What’s up with SA’s Covid-19 infection numbers?
The slower increase of cases may well be giving a false picture and the wrong impression
02 April 2020 - 06:00
There is something very peculiar about SA’s Covid-19 numbers.
From March 21 to March 24, there were 352 new cases, an average daily increase of 27.9.%. In the four days after that, the number of new cases increased on average by 21%. But in the four days ending on Wednesday April 1 there were 193 new cases, a daily average increase of 3.84%...
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