In April 2020, I received a saddening message from my home country that a fellow Zimbabwean friend was critically ill in South Africa― suffering from what was suspected to be Covid-19. He, unfortunately, succumbed and died after a few days. In the following weeks, another friend broke similar disturbing news of his wife contracting the virus. She was part of over 70 medical staff and frontline workers infected in a problematic hospital cluster in my hometown of Bulawayo. My friend requested...