How inequality and poverty undermined South Africa's COVID response


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  • Friday, 31 Jul 2020

FILE PHOTO: People stand in a queue to receive food aid amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Itireleng informal settlement, near Laudium suburb in Pretoria, South Africa, May 20, 2020. Picture taken May 20. 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - When coronavirus patients started arriving at South Africa's government-run Thelle Mogoerane Hospital, workers scrambled to set up isolation wards to treat them.

They can't keep up. Video filmed inside the hospital and seen by Reuters shows patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, being treated in a general ward, separated from other patients only by curtains.

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