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South Africa: Black People at Higher Risk of Dying From Covid-19 - Report
allAfrica, 18 August 2020
A report by South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has found that Covid-19 patients of people identified as Black African and Coloured are more likely… Read more »
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South Africa: Black Africans, Coloureds and Males Likely to Die of Covid-19
SAnews.gov.za, 20 August 2020
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has recently revealed the racial divide in COVID-19 deaths, with Blacks and Coloureds more likely to succumb to the disease… Read more »
Black People at Higher Risk of Covid-19 - South African Report
A report by South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has found that Covid-19 patients of people identified as Black African and Coloured are more likely to die in hospital, compared to White people.This comes in addition to factors that increase fatalities like hypertension, diabetes, chronic cardiac disease, chronic renal disease, malignancy, HIV, or tuberculosis.
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The Khayelitsha Field Hospital was established to treat moderate to severe COVID-19 cases (file photo).
