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In this Friday May 1, 2020 photo, 34-year-old entrepreneur Fino Dlamini poses for a photograph inside her office in the Soweto township outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Business was good in January and February, and projections for the rest of 2020 were excellent. Then the coronavirus brought everything to an abrupt halt. Dlamini was confined to her small home under a strict lockdown, with few options for earning money. South Africa is struggling to balance its fight against the coronavirus with its dire need to resume economic activity. The country with the Africa’s most developed economy also has its highest number of infections — more than 19,000. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

In fight against virus, South Africa expects a long wait

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

US gives ‘up to 1,000’ ventilators to South Africa for virus

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

People wearing face masks queue at a South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to collect their government grant in Cape Town South Africa, Monday, May 11, 2020. South Africa's Western Cape province, which includes the city of Cape Town, has emerged as the country's coronavirus hotspot, accounting for more than half of the nation's confirmed cases, which have gone above 10,000.(AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

Cape Town and its province are South Africa’s virus hotspot

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 15, 2018 photo, winter wheat is harvested in a field farmed by Dalton and Carson North near McCracken, Kan. With the start of the winter wheat harvest just weeks ago, U.S. custom harvesters are having problems getting into the country the foreign workers they usually rely on to run their combines. The shuttered embassies amid the global coronavirus outbreak is just the start of difficulties: Governments have closed down their borders and overseas workers who already have visas already simply cannot get a flight. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Harvesters struggle to recruit foreign crews during pandemic

By ROXANA HEGEMAN - Associated Press

South African brewer says it may dump 400M bottles of beer

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

People exercise on the promenade in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday May 1, 2020 as the government began a phased easing of its strict lockdown measures in a bid to cut down on the spread coronavirus. For the first time in five weeks, people were permitted to walk outside for exercise between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

South Africa eases one of world’s strictest lockdowns

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press

FILE — In this July 8, 2013 file photo Denis Goldberg, a friend and prisoner with former South African President Nelson Mandela, attends an event of the 50th anniversary of the raid against him and other former African National Congress leaders at the Liliesleaf Farm in the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa. According to a family announcement Goldberg died Wednesday April 29, 2020, at his home near Cape Town, aged 87. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber/File)

South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg dies

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press

A woman waves to a city worker dressed in a hazmat suit as he disinfects the streets in her neighborhood as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday, April 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Coronavirus ‘second wave’ set for Southern Hemisphere preview

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Cuban doctors arrive to help South Africa fight coronavirus

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press

A informal shop owner wearing a face mask looks on as soldiers patrol on the streets of Soweto, South Africa, Thursday, April 23, 2020, as the country remains in lockdown for a fourth week in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Africa has registered a 43% jump in reported COVID-19 cases in the last week, highlighting a warning from the World Health Organization that the continent of 1.3 billion could become the next epicentre of the global outbreak. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

China ‘mask diplomacy’ falls flat as Africans slam debt repayments push

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

A man hangs selfmade face masks at his stall on the street in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, April 16, 2020. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa extended the lockdown by an extra two weeks in a continuing effort to contain the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

South Africa to deploy 70,000 troops to enforce coronavirus restrictions

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

People queue on a soccer field to be screened and tested for COVID-19 at Lenasia South, south Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, April 21, 2020, during a campaign aimed to combat the spread of Coronavirus. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

South Africa announces $26 billion to help struggling nation

By CARA ANNA and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press

Man tries to smuggle girlfriend in car trunk during lockdown

By Associated Press - Associated Press

Family and friends observe social distancing during the funeral ceremony for Benedict Somi Vilakasi at the Nasrec Memorial Park outside Johannesburg Thursday, April 16, 2020. Vilakasi, a Soweto coffee shop manager, died of COVID-19 infection in a Johannesburg hospital Sunday April 12 2020. South Africa is under a strict five-week lockdown in a effort to fight the Coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

In Soweto, a South African who celebrated history is mourned

By JEROME DELAY - Associated Press

Homeless people waiting to receive food baskets from private donors, get their hands sanitized Monday, April 13, 2020 downtown Johannesburg. Because of South Africa's imposed lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, many are not able to work. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

South Africa’s lockdown effective, but some problems emerge

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and NQOBILE NTSHANGASE - Associated Press

In this photo taken Thursday, April 2, 2020 women queue alongside a testing clinic in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. South Africa, one of the world's most unequal countries with a large population vulnerable to the new coronavirus, may have an advantage in the coronavirus outbreak, honed during years battling HIV and tuberculosis: the know-how and infrastructure to conduct mass testing. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)

South Africa’s TB, HIV history prepares it for virus testing

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 19, 2017, file photo released by the Nigeria State House, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari, center, walks upon his arrival at the airport in Abuja, Nigeria, after returning from more than three months in London for medical treatment. The coronavirus pandemic could narrow one gaping inequality in Africa, where some heads of state and other elite jet off to Europe or Asia for health care unavailable in their nations but as global travel restrictions tighten, they might have to take their chances at home. (Sunday Aghaeze/Nigeria State House via AP, File)

African elite who once sought treatment abroad are grounded

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

A police officer chases a man who violated the lockdown downtown Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, March 27, 2020. Police and army started patrolling moments after South Africa went into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days in an effort to mitigate the spread to the coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

‘Go home!’ South Africa has 1st death as lockdown begins

By JEROME DELAY and NQOBILE NTSHANGASE and MOGOMOTSI MAGOME - Associated Press

People seeking medical assistance queue outside a local clinic in the township of Soweto, near Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday March 26, 2020, just hours before South Africa goes into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days, in an effort to control the spread to the coronavirus. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

‘Terrified’ South Africa nears lockdown; cases almost 1,000

By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME and NQOBILE NTSHANGASE - Associated Press

A worker, left, sanitises his hands while undergoing screening at an entrance to the Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg, Wednesday, March 11, 2020 where anyone entering or exiting is required to do as a precaution against the new coronavirus. For most people the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

New virus slow to spread in Africa, but cases creep up

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press