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Graft batters healthcare

As the country enters a new month and braces for the projected peak of Covid-19 coronavirus infections, healthcare experts fear that swirling allegations and investigations into Covid-19 tender corruption may deal the national response to the pandemic its heaviest blow yet.

Professor Francois Venter this week told City Press: “It’s a major blow for healthcare workers. The reason for lockdown in the first place was to protect our healthcare facilities, so having this happen was a huge shock.

The country was already ill-prepared in terms of

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