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Updated February 4, 2021
Airport staff members disinfect Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan on April 3, 2020. An aircraft that landed in Juba, along with the country’s main airport, were disinfected of any potential traces of COVID-19 coronavirus after hosting passengers who had recently arrived in South Sudan from neighbouring Sudan.
Alex McBride / AFP
South Sudan has ordered a ban on religious and political events and closed most schools after a rise in coronavirus cases in the country.
Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, one of South Sudan’s vice presidents, announced the measures late Wednesday for one month “due to the recent surge in the Covid-19 pandemic in the country.”