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World Service,30 Jan 2020,53 mins

WHO meeting on how to stop China coronavirus

Newsday

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The World Health Organisation is due to hold an urgent meeting later today to discuss whether the coronavirus outbreak in China is an international public health emergency. Mali is planning to increase the size of the army by around 50 per cent as it grapples with an Islamist insurgency. We go to Kenya to see what’s being done to eradicate trachoma, one of the neglected tropical diseases.

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