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South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.

The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.

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Her exclusive wine collection will be available in August.

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Working From Home With Distractions

Friday, May 22, 2020 0:01

By PURITY WANJOHI

Twidley Ithiga a director and principal at Jawabu School.

Brenda Nyawara, an architect at Arcscene Architects admits that it is not easy to be productive at home.

Communication with workmates is mostly done through Slack, e-mail, and virtual cloud workspaces such as BIMCloud, which allows real-time collaboration between colleagues working remotely.

While working from home is an option Brenda would consider post-Covid-19, it would be a hard sell for Twidley Ithiga, a director and principal of Jawabu School.

“This is essentially identifying times of the day when you’re most productive, removing distractions and focusing on work,” he says.

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