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Covid-19: WHO roped in to assist as Eastern Cape's death toll spikes | News24

The World Health Organisation is assisting the Eastern Cape government and national health department in trying to determine the contributing factors to the region's climbing Covid-19 death rate and to find ways to stem it.

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