By Christian Putsch (Die Welt)
Sitting in front of his personal fortress against the coronavirus, Farrous Mhango stands guard.
The gardener lives in a small space in Imizamo Yethu township with 15 other people.
The exits of the three tin huts all open onto the same tiny entrance courtyard.
Avoid each other?
Impossible.
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A few months ago, the 46-year-old gave his closest neighbors an ultimatum: it was either the vaccination or the move.
While the vaccinated people are still clearly in the minority in this township of Cape Town, all the neighbors of this part of the slum have taken all the precautionary measures currently within their reach.
All 15 are fully vaccinated.
A commitment that gives some hope to Farrous, who considers the new variant Omicron, a variant sequenced in South Africa and also known as B.1.1.529, as "
very dangerous
" given its speed of propagation.
He expects that he
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