The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to shape the advertising industry in the long-term. Businesses are prioritizing survival for now, but in the future will have to find new ways of brand-building. The change in people’s media and consumption habits will force a rethink of how best to do so. Paul van den Berg, Chief Evangelist at Oliver South Africa speaks to us on The Covid Report about the impact that the Coronavirus pandemic has had on the Advertising Communications industry.

Dating is complicated and often clumsy even in the best of times, add in a mask, social distancing and fear of a highly contagious virus. It's no secret that the coronavirus pandemic has made nearly everything more difficult, including dating, our relationships with other people in our communities, our families and workplaces. On the #CovidReport today we speak to Clinical Sexologist and Relationship Expert Dr Eve.

On the Covid Report today we look at how one of the world's most developed nations has dealt with Covid 19. The US is the epicentre of the coronara virus with millions of people who have lost their and millions others infected. We speak to Sonya Shields, an American activist who lives in New York and was infected with covid 19.

Traditional healing used to be concentrated a lot in the rural areas of Africa because of the inclination towards traditional ways of living in those areas. However, in the 21st century the situation has changed. Traditional health care services are no longer confined largely in the rural traditional villages alone but have spilled over into the urban and semi-urban areas with the influx of people from rural to urban areas in search of better economic conditions. Towards integration of traditional healing and western healing: Is this a remote possibility? We are joined by:
• Shehnaz Munshi – Research Project Manager and Lecturer at WITS University
• Lance Louskieter – Researcher, Lecturer at UCT & a PhD Candidate in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at UCT
• Phillipa Namutebi Kabali-Kagwa - Poet and Storyteller
• Professor Elelwani Ramagundo - Professor in the Division of Occupational Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at UCT
• Jean-Paul Dossou – Medical Doctor & PhD Student of Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerpen
• Jessica Horn – Director of Programmes for African Women’s Development Fund

COVID-19 lockdowns across the world have unleashed a range of unintended consequences, sparking a global economic crisis that has magnified fault lines in society, particularly in developing nations already burdened by high levels of poverty and income disparity. Millions of people’s livelihoods have been disrupted, leaving many unable to feed themselves or their families, at the same time, disruptions to the increasingly global food value chain have exacerbated problems with food security. Today on the #CovidReport we speak to Deidre Adams to not only tell us more about Food Forward SA but also look at how this pandemic has heightened food waste.

Today on The Covid Report we speak to Robyn Porteous, volunteer who is taking part in the covid-19 trials at Wits University. Wits has collaborated with the University of Oxford and the Oxford Jenner Institute to find a vaccine for the deadly covid-19 virus.