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China coronavirus dampens New Year celebrations

25/01/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Newshour, China coronavirus dampens New Year celebrations

A number of Spring Festival events are cancelled as coronavirus death toll mounts.

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China is marking the Lunar New Year, one of the most important dates in its calendar amid growing concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. We hear from a Bangladeshi student quarantined in a university hostel in Wuhan. 

Also on the programme: We take a look at facial recognition technology that is coming to London; and to mark Holocaust Memorial Day we hear from Michael Bornstein, an Auschwitz survivor.  

(Photo: Concern In China As Mystery Virus Spreads, Credit: Getty Wires)

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