Lockdown and other interventions potentially saved 20 000 lives: top scientist
Government interventions, including the travel ban and lockdown, have potentially averted at least 20 000 deaths, says a top scientist. Professor Tulio de Oliviera, a bioinformatician and director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform (Krisp) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, said the basic reproductive number of the infection had also slowed from three to one in most of the country. De Oliveira and his team at Krisp have […]
