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World Service,26 Feb 2020,53 mins

Coronavirus: how fast is it spreading?

Newsday

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Brazil has its first confirmed case of coronavirus. We ask a mathematician to predict the spread and perhaps the demise of the virus. We get a reaction from Cairo to the death of the former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. And why is there a shortage of tomatoes, a basic commodity, in East Africa?

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