The session will bring the latest reproduction number estimates, modelling and relevant data to the fore with an overview to understand recent and current trends, and more importantly to assess the direction of the pandemic.

These insights would be based on my ongoing work to model and monitor the epidemic that I’ve been sharing for some time now.

Outcomes would be to understand recent and current COVID-19 trends in reproduction numbers and latest research, get a sense of the near future of COVID-19 and it’s impact on SA population mortality, and sharing of further insights into possible longer term trends of COVID-19 including herd immunity.

The topic may require some adjustment nearer to the time as new trends emerge.