South Africa rolls out mobile testing units and drive-through testing centres
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One week into South Africa's nationwide lockdown and over 47,000 people have been tested, and 67 mobile testing units organised.
Drive-through testing centres have also been set up and soon the country will be able to test 30,000 people every day.
Retired Ivorian footballer Didier Drogba and his Cameroonian counterpart Samuel Eto'o have condemned comments by two French doctors who recently suggested, in a TV discussion about medical trials for Covid-19, that they be used on Africans first.
(Image: South Africa's health minister Zweli Mkhize says this could be the calm before a major storm. Credit: Getty)
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