Editorial
This coronavirus is a crisis, but so are our other diseases
02 February 2020 - 00:03
When do numbers really count? Many South Africans, like other citizens across the globe, are talking nonstop about the 2019 novel coronavirus. It evokes images of thousands of people in masks, entire cities in lockdown, scheduled flights that never take off, and individuals quarantined in hermetically sealed rooms that even their relatives don’t want to enter...
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