{"id":50926,"date":"2020-07-27T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/coronavirus-africa-southern-and-eastern-africa-covid-19-digest\/"},"modified":"2020-07-27T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T11:00:19","slug":"coronavirus-africa-southern-and-eastern-africa-covid-19-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/coronavirus-africa-southern-and-eastern-africa-covid-19-digest\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; Africa: Southern and Eastern Africa COVID-19 Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/db580da7ae9c663.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/db580da7ae9c663\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>June was a critical month for the COVID-19 outbreak across Southern and Eastern Africa.<\/li>\n<li>COVID-19 cases more than quadrupled in Malawi and South Africa; more than tripled in Kenya, Mozambique and Zimbabwe; and more than doubled in Madagascar.<\/li>\n<li>In East Africa, 92 per cent of working women are employed in the informal sector, heightening the risks they face of sexual exploitation and abuse due to economic vulnerability.<\/li>\n<li>Reports of gender-based violence have increased. However, service providers are not always being recognized as essential workers and women&#8217;s organizations are underfunded.<\/li>\n<li>More resources are urgently needed to enable partners to scale-up their response.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Download Report:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3eUXs0z\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3eUXs0z<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEY FIGURES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>464,112 total cases in the region (as of 22 July)<\/li>\n<li>7,310 total deaths<\/li>\n<li>26 countries affected in the region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus-africa-southern-and-eastern-africa-covid19-digest86754?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Central African Republic\" href=\"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/\">Central African Republic<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo HIGHLIGHTS June was a critical month for the COVID-19 outbreak across Southern and Eastern Africa. COVID-19 cases more than quadrupled in Malawi and South Africa; more than tripled in Kenya, Mozambique and Zimbabwe; and more than doubled in Madagascar. In East Africa, 92 per cent of working women are employed in the informal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":50927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/db580da7ae9c663.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[258,256,302,5707,4696,4689,303,32489,32926,26349,7152,257,254,7153],"class_list":["post-50926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-african-republic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-car","tag-car-news","tag-central-africa","tag-central-african-republic","tag-central-african-republic-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid19","tag-digest","tag-eastern","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/db580da7ae9c663.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}