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Our Africa correspondent, Jason Burke, has been looking at how the continent’s fragile health systems might cope with a sustained outbreak of the virus.
He’s spoken to officials in Nigeria where they are scrambling to add isolation beds and provide more specialised medical training and equipment at state hospitals.
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From Sunday, Thailand will require all visitors from abroad to present a health certificate confirming that they have been tested and are free from the coronavirus. This is effectively a travel ban in all but name.
Given the shortages of tests globally, it will be almost impossible for most people to obtain a certificate. The announcement comes as the Thai government faces pressure to impose tougher measures to stop the virus, which appears to have spread more rapidly over the past week.
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