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South Africa rolls out mobile testing in virus lockdown

Armed with screening questionnaires and testing kits, medics and volunteers have started mass testing. [AFP]

South African public healthcare workers dispersed into the buzzing streets of Johannesburg’s Yeoville neighbourhood on Friday as Africa’s worst virus-hit country rolled out mass door-to-door testing for COVID-19.

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