Opinion

Covid-19 pandemic: Sailing a ship while building it

The widespread commitment to responding to the epidemic provides me with great hope that our country may not experience the level of devastation seen elsewhere

31 May 2020 - 00:00 By Salim Abdool Karim

The first person with confirmed Covid-19 in SA was a traveller who had returned from Italy and was diagnosed on March 5...

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