Addressing Inequalities in the Covid Response
When the first case of COVID-19 was announced in Zambia in early April 2020 the flurry of commentaries on social media pointed to the fact that the disease was thought by many to only affect certain sectors of society and not others. The fact that the person had just arrived from a holiday in Europe fueled the perception that the more affluent were the ones who were susceptible to this new disease whilst the masses had some level of immunity. As the first...