THREAD: COVID-19 arrived in South Africa from Europe. Almost all the first 300 confirmed cases were travelers who had recently come from Europe. #PandemicAtlashttp://apne.ws/y67JjSY
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South Africa’s two-month lockdown, including bans on the sale of liquor and cigarettes, succeeded in slowing COVID-19's spread. But it seriously hurt the country’s economy and increased hunger in one of the world’s most unequal countries.
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South Africa weathered the initial wave of COVID-19, but a resurgence of the virus threatens to overwhelm hospitals in some regions and cause more deaths.
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The coronavirus emerged a year ago in Wuhan, China, and swept across the world. It brought joblessness and lockdowns, infirmity and death to all corners of the globe. But each nation has its own story of how it coped. Read
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Cases have more than doubled in South Africa since this article came out on December 16th. Time to issue a retraction.
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maybe an update would be more appropriate.
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