Weekend Argus Saturday

A new normal: Covid-19 by the numbers

AT midnight on March 26 a year ago our lives changed. Those changes were seismic and the aftermath remains.

For many South Africans, jobs disappeared; the lucky ones had to learn to work from home, while others were forced to mourn loved ones alone, taking comfort from what was happening behind a computer screen.

Just a day before the lockdown, South Africa had been a different place, where

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