Countries bordering the Republic of South Africa
A possibility explored was just selecting hosts in the 6 countries bordering and including South Africa (TLDs BW, LS, SZ, ZA, ZW) and then just using hosts with TLDs .co, .com, .go, .gov or including banc or bank in the name. The ideas was that such hosts are probably on commodity networks. However as of May 5th, 2020 these countries have few Covid-19 cases (BW:23, LS: 0, NA 101, SZ (Eswatine): 145, ZA: 218,329, ZW:34). As expected we could not identify a significant impact of Covid-19 on IPDV just by looking at the countries as a whole.
Botswana
PingER monitors five hosts in Botswana. They are: www.bac.ac.bw the Botswana Accountancy College in the capital Gaborone which contains about 10% of Botswana's 2.3 million population, www.biust.ac.bw the Botswana University of Science and Technology in Gaborone, www.bankofbotswana.bw the Bank of Botswana in Gaborone, ns1.btc.bw the Botswana Telecommunications Corporation in Gaborone, and www.bec.co.bw the Botswana Examinations Council in Gaborone. www.bankofbotswana.bw stopped responding on Mar 16.
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Looking at the charts below there does appear to be a correlation in the reduction of IPDV during the lockdown. This does not appear to be evident for the other hosts. If there is anything there appears to be an increase compared to the previous 4 weeks
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