South Africa: The Shifting Shape of the Covid-19 Frontline

In the past four-and-a-half months 'the frontline' in treating COVID-19 has shifted from a purely medical interface to include less-defined community spaces as NGOs and civic and activist organisations confront the pandemic's social and economic fallout, said the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Dr Leanne Brady.

Brady, a doctor in the Western Cape's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and a PhD candidate in the Health Policy and Systems Division at UCT, was in conversation with Dr Shaheem de Vries. De Vries is head of the EMS in the province. He is completing an executive MBA at UCT's Graduate School of Business.

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