INTRO: The Gauteng City Region Academy will soon be hiring thousands of unemployed youth -- to help curve the spread of the coronavirus in schools. Under the programme dubbed 'COVID BRIGADES', successful applicants will be placed in schools and government buildings to do screening, data capturing and to monitor social distancing and sanitising compliance. Gauteng currently has the second highest number of infections in the country with over 2-thousand 3-hundred cases and 27 deaths. Sashin Naidoo reports...