Article 5CJ3P 'We can't cope': Lesotho faces Covid-19 disaster after quarantine failures

'We can't cope': Lesotho faces Covid-19 disaster after quarantine failures

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Silence Charumbira in Maseru
from World news | The Guardian on (#5CJ3P)

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A Covid-19 disaster is threatening the small southern African kingdom of Lesotho after revelations that the government released people who had tested positive for the virus from quarantine early.

Government sources this week said they had been sending Covid-19 patients home from as far back as last June over cost concerns.

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