'In a queue to die': S.Africa nurses work in fear and exhaus

'In a queue to die': S.Africa nurses work in fear and exhaustion
AFP
2/4/2021
AFP
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Covid battle: Empty oxygen tanks and temporary coronavirus wards at Tshwane District Hospital in Pretoria
Nthabeleng, a 28-year-old nurse on the front line of South Africa's Covid pandemic, is exhausted and afraid. 
Each day, she begins her shift haunted by the dread of contracting coronavirus and dying, leaving behind a five-year-old daughter. She finishes it numb with fatigue, but the fear has remained.
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Coronavirus patients on oxygen at Cape Town's Khayelitsha Hospital. The second wave of Covid has placed South Africa's health system under huge pressure

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