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Africa has a COVID-19 time bomb to defuse

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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