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World Service,12 Mar 2020,53 mins

WHO: ‘Coronavirus is a pandemic’

Newsday

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The head of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has described the coronavirus a pandemic, saying he was concerned by "alarming levels of inaction.” We go to Zimbabwe where authorities have abandoned traditional controls on exchange rates in an effort to save the country's flagging economy? And we speak to the lawyer of the emir of Kano who’s been dethroned and is being detained in Nigeria.

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