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Nomafrench Mbombo, the Western Cape Provincial Minister of Health talks to media at Khayelitsha Hospital, in the huge sprawling township of Khayelitsha, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, on December 29, 2020. - South Africa has become the first African nation to record one million coronavirus cases, according to new data published by the country's health ministry on December 27, 2020. Currently suffering a second wave of infections, of which the majority are a new variant of the coronavirus, South Africa is the hardest hit country on the African continent. (Photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP) (Photo by RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)
Nomafrench Mbombo, the Western Cape provincial minister of health, talks to media in Capetown, South Africa.(Photo by Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images.)

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