Inside Covid-19: Good health best virus shield; Manuel calls out lockdown "irrationality"; Dr Otto home - Ep 32

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In episode 32 of Inside Covid-19 we crunch some numbers with an actuary to find exercising regularly and eating healthily dramatically drops the prospect of being hospitalised for Covid-19; former finance minister Trevor Manuel joins a chorus calling for changes to some irrational lockdown regulations; we unpack organised business’s call to drop the lockdown level from 4 to 2; a Wits professor asks whether SA has indeed flattened the Covid-19 infection curve; and we catch up with the Bali-stranded SA doctor who has finally made it home to her four children. (the pic above of abandoned wheelbarrows is by our Biznews colleague Nadya Swart) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11 May 2020 1PM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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