Gates Foundation praises SA’s swift action on Covid-19
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16 April 2020 - 18:45
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has praised the government’s swift action to combat Covid-19, which saw it impose a stringent national lockdown barely three weeks after the first case was confirmed in SA on March 5.
The lockdown has confined all but essential workers to their homes, and brought the economy to a virtual standstill in an effort to slow transmission of the coronavirus and buy the government time to ready the health system...
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