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Ground Zero: Deep-seated colonial-era prejudice fuelled the pandemic in rural Eastern Cape


Ground Zero: Deep-seated colonial-era prejudice fuelled the pandemic in rural Eastern Cape
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The Eastern Cape has been deemed “ground zero” for a highly infectious strain of the Covid-19 virus, which emerged towards the end of 2020 and became known as the South African variant. The region has borne the brunt of the pandemic’s lethal consequences, with the virus claiming more than one in 300 lives, or 485 per 100,000 – a Covid-19 mortality rate that would be the world’s highest.
Between May 2020 and February 2021 it was the hardest-hit province, with 11,000 official deaths. However, over the same period, South African Medical Research Council figures showed excess deaths exceeded 31,000, as shown below. ....

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Ground Zero: Deep-seated colonial-era prejudice fuelled...


The Eastern Cape has been deemed “ground zero” for a highly infectious strain of the Covid-19 virus, which emerged towards the end of 2020 and became known as the South African variant. The region has borne the brunt of the pandemic’s lethal consequences, with the virus claiming more than one in 300 lives, or 485 per 100,000 – a Covid-19 mortality rate that would be the world’s highest.
Between May 2020 and February 2021 it was the hardest-hit province, with 11,000 official deaths. However, over the same period, South African Medical Research Council figures showed excess deaths exceeded 31,000, as shown below.
On 16 February 2021, Adrian Gore, CEO of Discovery Health, claimed more than half the population might have already been infected with Covid-19, rather than the 2% or 3% estimated by the government. ....

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