Globally 3.75 million people are infected with the virus 

• 264  thousand people have died around the world - 1.24 million have recovered 

• South Africa's confirmed Covid-19 infections now at 7 808 with 236 infections in the last 24 hours.

• Among those are 511 health care workers and one doctor and one nurse have died.

• The death toll rises to 153 and 3153 people have recovered from the virus.

• 11 315 tests have been completed in the last 24 hours, Almost 280 000 tests have been completed.

•  Western Cape has recorded 3771 confirmed cases of COVID-19 infections, 72 deaths and 1122 recoveries.

• Total number of tests 48168

Patients in hospital 150 with 62 in ICU or high care

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• Boris Johnson has signalled that some lockdown measures could be eased from the beginning of next week

• The UK has now become the first country in Europe to pass 30,000 coronavirus deaths, according to the latest government figures.

• Meanwhile in Germany, Angela Merkel has said that all shops can reopen and football can resume., with a handbrake in place in case virus infections rise

• New York governor Andrew Cuomo says the city’s infection numbers are on the decline while numbers in the rest of the USA continue to rise.

• 43 US states reopening dispite not meeting the safety guidelines. 

• Trump reverses course and says White House coronavirus taskforce will stay

A look at stories which have been trending with Barbara Friedman.

Guest: Chantell Illbury Head of Strategy at Mind f a Fox at Mind of a Fox

Outa has called on South African municipalities to reduce property rates during the

lockdown. They have urged municipalities to legally assist by reducing property rates or

giving temporary exemptions until the lockdown has been lifted.

Kieno speaks to Wayne Duvenhage CEO of Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse

Vodacom says it has switched on its first live 5G mobile network in Johannesburg,

Pretoria and Cape Town – with further rollouts planned to other parts of the country.

The network was recently assigned a temporary spectrum by ICASA for the duration of

the national disaster.

This network will support both mobile and fixed wireless services and is currently available on twenty live 5G sites, 18 of which are in Gauteng and 2 in Cape Town. To talk about this exciting development Kieno joined by Jan Vermeulen, Editor at Large of My Broadband.co.za

Kieno speaks to Tracey Chambers CEO of the Clothing Bank

The Western Cape's restaurants, bars, and retailers are in serious trouble. But you can

help save them with CapeTalk's Save your Fave's initiative. That coffee shop or hair

salon; the nail bar or the laundromat; that restaurant or sweet shop that cannot operate

during the lockdown. Now they need you more than ever. CapeTalk and Dineplan are giving you a chance to save them from shutting down in this difficult period, one voucher at a time.

Dineplan as a company saw the need and created a programme to get consumers to

proactively help our favourite local businesses to survive.

Kieno joined by Greg Whitfield, Co-founder and Director of Dineplan and Voucherplan

A bat virus specialist known as China’s “batwoman” and her lab in Wuhan have become

the centre of a furious blame game between the US and China over the source of the

coronavirus outbreak. US president Donald Trump insists he has seen evidence coronavirus was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the city where the outbreak began in January. But his assertions clash with the message from his country’s scientific and intelligence communities, as well as some of the health experts leading the fight against coronavirus in the US.

Kieno joined by Brooks Spector,Associate Editor at Daily Maverick

Kieno speaks to Tim Harris CEO Wesgro