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World Service,09 Apr 2020,23 mins

Covid-19 disease forces France and Germany into recession

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Italy's prime minister has warned that the European Union risks failing as a project unless it moves to help the countries worst hit by the coronavirus outbreak. Despite a comparatively small population in relation to other EU countries we ask why has Belgium been hit so hard when it comes to Covid-19 fatalities? And a number of African poets living under lockdown, have recorded themselves reading excerpts from a poem by the famous Nigerian poet, Christopher Okigbo.

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