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Zimbabwe’s Lack of Cash for Once Is a Good Thing
A customer makes a payment from his mobile phone for basic food items on the outskirts of Harare.
Photographer: Jekesai Njikizana/AFP via Getty Images
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Zimbabwe’s severe cash shortage is providing the impoverished southern African country with some relief in the fight against the coronavirus: One less way of spreading the disease.