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26/01/2020 GMT

China introduces new measures to try to stop virus

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The number of people infected with a new respiratory disease continues to rise

China has announced that the number of people infected by the new coronavirus has increased sharply to nearly 2,000. The Chinese authorities have announced they are introducing new measures to try to stop the spread of the respiratory disease, including a ban on the sale of wild animals in markets.

Also in the programme: we hear from the two Washington Post journalists behind a new book about President Trump titled A Very Stable Genius; and the memoirs of an Auschwitz survivor published 75 years after the Red Army liberated the concentration camp.

(Image: Chinese military medics arrive with medical supplies at Wuhan Airport. Credit: EPA/STR CHINA OUT)

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