Containing the first COVID case in South Africa
How does a country respond to its first case of a deadly outbreak? To find out, we sit down with Dr. Villyen Motaze, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases epidemiologist who was tasked with containing South Africa's first COVID-19 case.
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