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Archbishop Tutu: Coronavirus Exposes South Africa’s Inequalities

HeadlineApr 28, 2020

With over 4,500 confirmed cases, South Africa is one of the hardest-hit nations on the continent. Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu said the coronavirus has brought racial inequalities into stark relief. “The virus has done the country a ghastly favor by exposing the unsustainable foundations on which it is built… that must be urgently fixed,” Archbishop Tutu said in a statement. In related news, over 200 doctors from Cuba arrived in South Africa Monday to help fight the outbreak.

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