The COVID-19 pandemic exposes countries and people in sub-Saharan Africa to severe risks because of structural global inequalities. There is a simultaneous risk of the use of public health action to enact oppressive governance policies, which is happening in response to COVID-19 in many countries. In this commentary, we use the example of 20th-century pandemic control in pre-apartheid South Africa to illustrate how public health crises can engender oppressive social, economic, and spatial transformations.

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COVID-19时期的结构性不平等：撒哈拉以南非洲地区的城市化，隔离和大流行控制

由于结构性的全球不平等，COVID-19大流行使撒哈拉以南非洲的国家和人民面临严重的风险。同时存在使用公共卫生措施来制定压迫性治理政策的风险，在许多国家中，这是针对COVID-19的结果。在这篇评论中，我们以种族隔离前的南非20世纪大流行控制为例，以说明公共卫生危机如何引发压迫性的社会，经济和空间变革。