NUMBERS OF THE WEEK
$900m
The amount the Suez Canal Authority wants in compensation after the Ever Given cargo ship blocked the Suez Canal for six days in late March, causing a massive backlog of more than 400 vessels that use the sea link between Asia and Europe
29
The number of matches
Mamelodi Sundowns have won since October 2020. Their good fortune came to an end when they lost 2-0 to CR Belouizdad at Loftus during a CAF Champions League game. But Downs still have their quarter-final spot in the championship
76
The number of years since Nazi Germany’s notorious Buchenwald and Mittelbau-dora concentration camps were liberated by Allied troops. Germany’s president, Frank-walter Steinmeier, on Sunday commemorated the thousands of victims who were brutally murdered in the camps during World War II
30m
The number of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines South Africa has secured. The first shipment of two million doses is expected in May
6
The number of craters formed
since the Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall erupted on 19 March. The six craters freed a flow of lava and have now become an attraction for visitors and scientists