This lockdown has been difficult for the entire country, and the banning of the sale of a few vice items such as tobacco and liquor has put a damper on many people's daily lives.

In an emergency shout-out to all South Africans and corporate, SHOUT SA has created a new public service initiative to get surgical and N95 masks to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

We are into Day 13 of lockdown - and many of us are not used to having our partners around 24/7. DrD helps out and adds valuable advice for those couples that are struggling during lockdown.

Amidst the global COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown of South Africa, the Yusuf Islam Foundation has partnered with a local humanitarian organisation, Penny Appeal South Africa, to provide an emergency relief of hygiene and food packs to vulnerable communities across the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

Today we want to help the parents out there! According to Clinical Psychologist Dorianne Weil - aka 'DrD', it is a tightrope trying to tell our children not to panic but at the same time make them understand that this is really, really serious.

East Coast Drive played her husband Matt's voicenote this week all the way from Indonesia. On Thursday, we were able to speak to his wife in Durban to get the full story. The family managed to get back to Durban, but Matt is still there.

We are now one week into the 21-day lockdown enforced to curb the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa and it is something we’re all becoming accustomed to, but for our government, it comes with a whole bunch of new, unprecedented challenges.

East Coast Drive decided to speak to DrD about people who are alone at home. We often speak of families together and we sometimes forget that some people are completely alone and that comes with a whole set of different challenges altogether.

Economic activity around the world is at its lowest point since the 2008 financial crises that brought about depressions in almost every major and minor economy around the world. South Africa has been downgraded to junk status, so the Drive team thought it would be great to speak to Chief Economist at Old Mutual Investment Group, Johann Els, to help us make sense of exactly what this all means.

Monica is the lucky person to have guessed what the ECRSecretSound worth R25,000 is!