Coronavirus in South Africa: Why the low fatality rate is misleading

As coronavirus infections surge, at ferocious speed, across South Africa, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks driving through this huge country trying to understand where and why things are going both right and wrong.

Here, in seven points, are some early conclusions and, perhaps, some more lessons for the rest of the continent.

1)The fog of war

Be wary of statistics, even here in South Africa, which has some of the best data collection on the…