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China coronavirus: fear grips Wuhan as lockdown begins

BBC World Service - Newsday, China coronavirus: fear grips Wuhan as lockdown begins

There are more than 500 confirmed cases of the virus, which has spread abroad

There are more than 500 confirmed cases of the virus, which has spread abroad.

A sense of anxiety is growing in Wuhan as the Chinese city goes into lockdown in an effort to control the spread of a new virus which has left 17 dead.

An air tanker has crashed in a fireball while fighting bushfires in Australia, killing the three people on board.

World leaders are attending a commemoration in Israel marking 75 years since the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau were liberated.

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