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Newshour: 21/03/2020 21:06 GMT: Coronavirus: is China over the worst?

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21/03/2020 21:06 GMT

21/03/2020 21:06 GMT: Coronavirus: is China over the worst?

Coronavirus: is China over the worst?

BBC World Service - Newshour, Coronavirus: is China over the worst?

China relaxes restrictions but Italy & Spain report hundreds more deaths

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Sunday has been by far the worst single-day total worldwide since the pandemic began. There are now more than 260,000 confirmed cases – most of them outside China where the virus originated. 

Also in the programme: the latest from people across three continents who have been affected by the virus; and an award-winning Egyptian novelist tells us why she staged a protest at the "catastrophic" threat to the inmates of her country's overcrowded prison.

(Photo: A road in Los Angeles is almost empty as the lock down bites. Credit: Getty Images)

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