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South African Hospitals Forced to Turn Away COVID-19 Patients

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   Some South African hospitals are turning away hundreds of people
   infected with the coronavirus because of a lack of medical staff and
   equipment, a doctor says.

   Dr. Tobisa Fodo said her intensive care unit at a hospital in Port
   Elizabeth has been able to accept only a quarter of the people seeking
   treatment.

   ''It's heartbreaking in the sense that you end up yourself and your
   team having to say no to somebody's mother, somebody's grandmother,
   somebody's father, somebody's uncle," Fodo said. She said cores of
   people are dying in South Africa without getting medical treatment.

   South Africa has confirmed more than 300,000 coronavirus casesand more
   than 4,400 deaths.

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