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World Service,22 Apr 2020,23 mins

Covid-19 - which countries are coping well?

Newsday

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We go to Portugal to find out why it's been hit far less severely than its neighbour Spain. Why have many Russians gone online to protest over the country's coronavirus lockdown restrictions? And how contact tracing and quarantine isn't anything new - it all actually happened in Florence during the bubonic plague 400 years ago.

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