Apple and Google have unveiled a rare partnership to add technology to their smartphone platforms that will alert users if they have come into contact with a person with Covid-19.

Communications regulator Icasa has received “about 35” applications for access to temporary high-demand spectrum, it said on Friday.

The public debate on strategies to tackle Covid-19 often unhelpfully positions health and economic considerations in a diametric fashion – as trade-offs. The two need to be parts of a coherent whole.

A conspiracy theory linking 5G technology to the outbreak of the coronavirus is quickly gaining momentum. But the theory is also getting a boost from what some researchers say is a coordinated disinformation campaign.

Naspers remains on the lookout for acquisitions even as economies around the world grind to a halt in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

South Africans will have to endure at least another two weeks of the national Covid-19 lockdown. President Cyril Ramaphose announced on Thursday evening that the lockdown will be extended until the end of April.

Vuyani Jarana, the former chief officer of Vodacom Business and former CEO of South African Airways, has invested in mobile telecommunications infrastructure supplier Mobax.

Pick n Pay said on Friday that it is introducing scan-and-pay technology at till points nationwide so customers don’t have to touch point-of-sale terminals during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ride-hailing company Bolt Technology, formerly known as Taxify, is seeking credit support from the Estonian government after banks turned down requests for loans.

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