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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Links to articles shown as headline screenshots:
https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2020-03-05-first-case-of-coronavirus-detected-in-sa/
https://www.nicd.ac.za/first-case-of-covid-19-coronavirus-reported-in-sa/
https://www.gov.za/covid-19/resources/fake-news-coronavirus-covid-19
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/vaccinating-africa-covid-19-misinformation/
https://www.iol.co.za/news/opinion/conspiracy-theories-on-covid-19-vaccine-can-be-as-deadly-as-virus-itself-8adf871e-2d9e-4d6a-8e43-ae188308ac52
https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/how-bots-accounts-are-putting-lives-in-danger-during-covid-19-20210330
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/business/pfizer-vaccine-disinformation-influeners.html?searchResultPosition=3

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