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This story was produced by writer Ray Mwareya and our friends at The Sick Times Tuberculosis (TB) and Long Covid are two diseases that have some overlapping symptoms. The two are often mistaken for each other in South Africa. Long Covid is poorly understood and acknowledged in South Africa, and...
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