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The following story will move Monday as this week's Tuesday Spotlight, a feature showcasing the best off-the-news enterprise in the AP report:

VIRUS OUTBREAK-SOUTH AFRICA-TESTS

JOHANNESBURG -- South Africa may have an advantage in the coronavirus outbreak, despite being one of the world’s most unequal countries with a large population vulnerable to the virus. Years of battling HIV and tuberculosis have endowed it with the know-how and infrastructure to conduct mass testing. Health experts stress that the best way to slow the spread of the virus is through extensive testing, the quick quarantine of people who are positive, and tracking who those people came into contact with. South Africa has begun doing just that with mobile testing units and screening centers established in the country’s most densely populated township areas. By Andrew Meldrum. UPCOMING: 840 words, photos.

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