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Oxygen already runs low as Covid-19 surges in South Africa

The coronavirus storm has arrived in South Africa, but in the overflowing Covid-19 hospital wards the sound is less of a roar than a rasp.

Oxygen is already low in hospitals at the new epicenter of the country’s outbreak, Gauteng province, home to the power centers of Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria.

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