The Namibia Statistics Agency this week announced that the census mapping exercise will be halted until 14 April, or at least until the COVID-19 situation around stabilizes.
The Agency said in a statement, halting this activity is necessitated by the fact that mapping field staff is expected to visit numerous houses for face to face interviews, which may increase the risk of the mapping staff as well as for the household members responding to the survey.
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