JOHANNESBURG: South Africa had now registered more than 500,000 cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the health ministry announced on Saturday (Sunday in Manila), making it by far the hardest-hit country in Africa.

Family members and funeral workers in a protective gear, carry the coffin of nurse Duduzile Margaret Mbonane who died from COVID-19, during her funeral, in Thokoza east of  Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, July 23, 2020. One of the country's nurses was buried Thursday, the latest of more than 5,000 infected health workers across South Africa. Mbonane died just a month before her retirement, her husband said. AP PHOTO

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