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World Service,22 Jan 2020,23 mins

China says the new virus could mutate and spread

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The authorities in China say a new virus which emerged in the central city of Wuhan has infected more than four hundred people across the country. Nine are known to have died. The US Senate votes to begin Donald Trump's impeachment trial without hearing new evidence. And we go to Australia where land clearing and drying waterways have put the duck-billed platypus in danger.

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