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South African doctors design virus ‘box’ to protect healthcare workers

South African doctors design virus ‘box’ to protect healthcare workers

Eyes narrowed in focus behind her face shield, Jana Du Plessis, a South African doctor kept a steady hand as she inserted a tube down the throat of a dummy, working through the lid of a plexiglass box. Du Plessis, a doctor at Johannesburg’s Charlotte Maxeke public hospital, practised moving around a newly-designed isolation device […]