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HOOKED UP FOR DEAR LIFE

BE AFRAID. Be very afraid.

This is the message the authorities keep sending and for good reason. South Africa is fully in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic, with infections rising alarmingly every day and the death toll creeping up.

And it isn’t going away anytime soon. Professor Shabir Madhi, the Wits vaccinology expert leading the first Covid-19 trial in Africa, recently told YOU that infections might come in many waves and could be around for another two to three years if a vaccine isn’t found.

Scores are needing hospitalisation – and many have to be put on ventilators in a bid to save their lives. The machine is the last

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