Between a rock and a hard place: COVID-19 and South Africa's response.,Journal of Law and the Biosciences

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Between a rock and a hard place: COVID-19 and South Africa's response.
Journal of Law and the Biosciences ( IF 2.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-07 , DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsaa052
Ciara Staunton ₁ , Carmen Swanepoel ₂ , Melodie Labuschaigne ₃

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In December 2019, a cluster of pneumonia cases was reported in China, which eventually led to the identification of the first case of COVID-19. Since then, COVID-19 has spread across Asia to Europe and through to the USA before the first case was reported in Egypt on February 14.¹ Daily updates from the Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC) show that the number of recorded cases has risen daily with (as of June 18, 2020) 52 African Union Member States reporting 267,519 cases, 7197 deaths, and 122,661 recoveries.² Together with Egypt and Algeria, South Africa was considered to be at the highest risk of the virus being imported and spreading with a moderate to high capacity to respond to an outbreak.³

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