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Residents of the Yeoville neighborhood of Johannesburg queue to enter a grocery store Saturday, March 28, 2020. South Africa went into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus. The COVID-19 coronavirus symptoms can include fever and cough but some suffer more severe symptoms like pneumonia and sometimes requiring hospitalization. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Residents of the Yeoville neighborhood of Johannesburg queue to enter a grocery store Saturday, March 28, 2020. South Africa went into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus. The COVID-19 coronavirus symptoms can include fever and cough but some suffer more severe symptoms like pneumonia and sometimes requiring hospitalization. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

March 28, 2020

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Virus prevention measures turn violent in parts of Africa
March 28, 2020 3:47 p.m.

Virus prevention measures turn violent in parts of Africa

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Police fired tear gas at a crowd of Kenyan ferry commuters as the country’s first day of a coronavirus curfew slid into chaos. Elsewhere, officers were captured in mobile phone footage whacking people with batons.