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African lives matter: Covid-19 didn’t miss the continent, as some would conveniently have it — and the numbers back this up

Africa

African lives matter: Covid-19 didn’t miss the continent, as some would conveniently have it — and the numbers back this up

By Tian Johnson, Tom Moultrie, Gregg Gonsalves and Fatima Hassan