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World Service,13 Mar 2020,53 mins

Covid-19: how Europe is dealing with the virus

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France, Belgium and Portugal are the latest countries to close schools to stop the spread of coronavirus. We look at how Europe is dealing with the virus. We try to find why Ivory Coast has been trying to boost its cashew nuts industry. We go to Iraq as Friday prayers have been cancelled across the Middle East in an attempt to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.

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