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Coronavirus: is China over the worst?
Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
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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Sat 21 Mar 202021:06GMT
BBC World Service
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- Sat 21 Mar 202021:06GMTBBC World Service
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Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
