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World Service,23 Jan 2020,23 mins

China coronavirus: fear grips Wuhan as lockdown begins

Newsday

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A sense of anxiety is growing in Wuhan as the Chinese city goes into lockdown in an effort to control the spread of a new virus which has left 17 dead. An air tanker has crashed in a fireball while fighting bushfires in Australia, killing the three people on board. World leaders are attending a commemoration in Israel marking 75 years since the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau were liberated.

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