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Africa has a COVID-19 time bomb to defuse

Residents of Madala Men's Hostel cover their noses as they stand in a queue waiting to collect sanitiser from health workers during a nationwide lockdown for 21 days to try to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Alexandra, South Africa  April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC2QVF9CAZ09

Coronavirus is a looming threat to Africa’s population of more than 1.2 billion. Image: REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Tolbert Nyenswah
Senior research associate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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