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World Service,06 May 2020,53 mins

US coronavirus task force to be scrapped

Newsday

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President Trump says new group will concentrate on 'safety and opening' - despite the US still being heavily affected with more than 2000 fatalities in the last 24 hours. We hear from India which has seen a surge of covid-19 cases in some states, but not others. We hear about the vast differences across the vast country. And we look at the case of Peru where infection numbers keep soaring in spite of early lockdown measures.

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