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Covid-19 is a looming threat to Africa’s over 1.2b people

People queue to collect social grants and shop during a 21-day nationwide lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus disease in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa, March 31, 2020. [Reuters]

In Liberia, the first case of Covid-19 came from someone who brought the disease from Switzerland. This traveller’s household cook was the next in Liberia to test positive for the infection.

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