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World Service,17 Feb 2020,23 mins

Coronavirus: more than seventy thousand people infected in China

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Chinese officials say the coronavirus outbreak is now known to have infected more than seventy thousand people in the country and has killed nearly eighteen hundred. Many people have been killed in an attack on a village in north-west Cameroon, the UN says. President Emmanuel Macron's bid to radically overhaul the post-war pension system reaches the National Assembly on Monday, ahead of a long period of debate in France.

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