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PingER Monitors 4 hosts in Tanzania. Three are universities: the Open University of Tanzania (www.out.ac.tz) in Dar es Salaam, the former capital, that retains most government offices and is the country's largest city, principal port, and leading commercial centrecenter; the Sokoine University of Agriculture  (www.suanet.ac.tz) in Morogoro a town with a population of 315,866 (2012 census) in the eastern part of Tanzania, 122 mi) west of Dar es Salaam; the State University of Zanzibar (www.suza.ac.tz) in Zanzibar town. The other host is related to education: the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (www.costech.or.tz) in Dar es Salaam. Of these only www.suza.ac.tz appears to notice any substantial change in responsiveness. In particular, there are big dips at weekends. Also, the peaks before Mar 21 are larger than those after. 

Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Tanzania we find: 

The first case reported was on Mar 16. On 17 March, the Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa announced a range of measures, including closing schools. This corresponds strongly with the drop to near zero for www.suza.ax.tz starting on Mar 18. The first death was recorded Mar 31st , in Dar es Salam. On 21st May, the President announced that colleges will reopen and form six secondary school students will return to school from 1st June, sports will resume from 1st June.

  
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Uganda

PingER monitors two hosts in Uganda. One is the Victoria University in the capital Kampala (www.vu.ac.ug), the other is a commercial host mail2.starcom.co.ug also in Kampala.

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According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Zambia, the first 2 cases were on Mar 18, the first death was Apr 2. On March 17, 2020, the Zambian government announced that all schools, colleges and universities will be closed on Friday 20 March in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. As seen below there does appear to be an impact (reduction in IPDV by about a factor of two for about a month) on the PingER IPDV for www.cooperativecollege.com.za and www.talk90points5.co.zm 

 

The charts below shows the daily IPDV results and the 14-day averages and their standard deviations. For www.cooperativecollege.ac.zm there is seen to be a reduction both the average IPDV and the standard deviation for 2-3 weeks following the noted intervention.

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Zimbabwe

PingER monitors two hosts in Zimbabwe. Hellenic school (https://www.hellenic.ac.zw/) and a commercial site www.paynet.co.zw

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