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THE cheap booze in early October. The
owner said his club had become a
‘scapegoat’ as SA began hurtling
Citizens threw the term around, towards a second wave. Everyone
scientists wrangled with ratios, else said it was a disaster that could
and by the end of the year have been avoided. But over the next
estimates of how few months, many venues behaved in
many cases the same way.
were asympto-
matic ranged
from one in
five (20%) to UBER EATS
four in five
(80%). Clumps of men on scooters became
a common sight as the taste for
OF
home-delivered food hit a high during
the lockdown phase when restau-
BOOZE BAN rants were still shut but
takeaway food was reintro-
duced. And we weren’t the
COVID-19
SA experienced two
bans on alcohol only ones: Forbes reported
sales during the that customers had risen by
pandemic, and 30% in countries where the
research that app is active.
excluded other
factors showed
21 unnatural
deaths a day were VUVUZELAS AND
prevented as a result. VACCINES
Some South Africans took to
tooting vuvuzelas daily at
CORONAVIRUS 8pm to honour
TO COVID-19 healthcare workers.
As news spread
It didn’t take long for South Africans later in the year of
to dub the new disease 'rona', but for three candidate
vaccines that