LETTER: Spanish flu holds lessons
The experience of SA’s worst pandemic can be used to help combat the coronavirus
02 March 2020 - 15:33
Chinese consul-general Lin Jing thinks SA and its health services are ready for the coronavirus (“SA praised for a good strategy to deal with coronavirus threat”, February 26).
The SA national department of health was established in response to the 1918 Spanish flu outbreak, which claimed more lives than the Black Death, including 4% of SA’s population...
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