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FILE - In this July 8, 2020, file photo, people walk past an informational mural warning people about the dangers of the new coronavirus and how to prevent transmission, with words in Swahili reading "We are the Cure", painted by youth artists from the Uweza Foundation, in the Kibera slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya. A dangerous stigma has sprung up around the coronavirus in Africa fueled, in part, by severe quarantine rules in some countries as well as insufficient information about the virus. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)Tour operators take part in a protest in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday July 31, 2020. Various tourism operators staged a slow drive protest as they struggle to make ends meet under the COVID-19 lockdown regulations. (Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)FILE - In this Wednesday, May 27, 2020 file photo, Cellar Master Elunda Basson works at the Steenberg vineyard in Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa. With wine-tasting tourists to the farms of the Western Cape Province drying up many wineries face a bleak future due to COVID-19. (AP Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht, File)Tour operators take part in a protest in Cape Town, South Africa, Friday July 31, 2020. Various tourism operators staged a slow drive protest as they struggle to make ends meet under the COVID-19 lockdown regulations. (Photo/Nardus Engelbrecht)
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FILE - In this July 8, 2020, file photo, people walk past an informational mural warning people about the dangers of the new coronavirus and how to prevent transmission, with words in Swahili reading "We are the Cure", painted by youth artists from the Uweza Foundation, in the Kibera slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya. A dangerous stigma has sprung up around the coronavirus in Africa fueled, in part, by severe quarantine rules in some countries as well as insufficient information about the virus. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
