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Hard truths and the Covid crisis
As millions become aware that capitalism cannot of itself generate the impulse to solve the problems posed by pandemic, then the drive to find an alternative grows stronger, argues NICK WRIGHT
DESPERATE MEASURES: Anti-Covid fumigation in a poor neighborhood of Harare, Zimbabwe, last Monday

IF NOTHING else the precipitous fall in share prices might concentrate the minds of our ruling class on the growing dangers that a new and more deadly mutant virus presents.

South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana and Eswatini have been added to Britain’s red list, in the hope that the omicron Covid strain can be shut out. 

People from these states are compelled to quarantine for 10 days and flights into Britain from these places are now banned.

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