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World Service,16 Mar 2020,53 mins
Coronavirus: LA and New York shut schools, restaurants and bars
NewsdayAvailable for over a year
New York mayor Bill de Blasio said "we must respond with a wartime mentality". Germany has closed its borders with France, Switzerland and Austria - while Italy reports 368 more coronavirus deaths - a new one-day record. We look back to another pandemic in the fourteenth century - the bubonic plague - or black death.
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