“Don’t think that because you are in a better situation at the moment you can forget to pay attention to the virus,” French epidemiologist Dominique Costagliola recently told TV channel CNBC. “When you look at the worldwide map of cases, you see that even if you control the virus in your country, the virus is still there, so it can come back.”

Those aren’t words South Africans want to hear at the moment...

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