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Gauteng Province in South Africa’s northeast has become the country’s new epicenter for COVID-19 infections. The outbreak there is among the worst on the continent, but healthcare workers have shown that they are not ready to take the disease lying down.

Local pandemic-response apparatuses have leapt into action to fight back the tide of infections. Earlier this week, health workers in the country carried out more than 56,000 tests in a single day, bringing the total number of people tested for the disease nationwide to over two million.

These photos show workers at a hospital in Gauteng Province’s Pretoria as they go about their work.