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South Africa began to gradually ease its strict coronavirus lockdown on Friday, allowing some industries to reopen after five weeks of restrictions, that plunged its struggling economy deeper into turmoil.
As quoted by AFP.com, the economy of Africa's most industrialised nation was already teetering, with low growth and high debts when the lockdown kicked in on March 27.
On Wednesday S&P downgraded the country's credit rating further to junk. With 5,647 confirmed cases and 103 fatalities, South Africa has the continent's highest COVID-19 death toll//AFP
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