SA’s cumulative Covid-19 cases have just passed 683,000, a small fraction of the more than 35-million cases worldwide but enough to put our country’s health-care system under severe strain.

Lockdown has also put strain on a  struggling economy, which is likely to shrink more than the initial forecast of 7.2% this year, the biggest recorded  reduction in 90 years...

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