Shabir A. Madhi

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  • Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
South Africans practise social distancing while they queue outside a supermarket in Hillbrow, Johannesburg during the country’s lockdown. Photo by Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

South Africa needs a post‑lockdown strategy that emulates South Korea

Alex van den Heever, University of the Witwatersrand; David Campbell Francis, University of the Witwatersrand; Francois Venter, University of the Witwatersrand; Imraan Valodia, University of the Witwatersrand; Lucy Allais, University of the Witwatersrand; Martin Veller, University of the Witwatersrand; Michael Sachs, University of the Witwatersrand, and Shabir A. Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa cannot afford to embark on a strategy of extended periodic lockdowns. It needs to shift to mass testing and contact tracing.
An elderly man at a social grant paypoint in South Africa after the COVID-19 lockdown. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) () Photo by Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

South Africa needs to end the lockdown: here’s a blueprint for its replacement

Shabir A. Madhi, University of the Witwatersrand; Alex van den Heever, University of the Witwatersrand; David Campbell Francis, University of the Witwatersrand; Imraan Valodia, University of the Witwatersrand; Martin Veller, University of the Witwatersrand, and Michael Sachs, University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa must develop a comprehensive health and economic strategy if it is to stop the COVID-19 pandemic without causing long term socio-economic damage.

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