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World Service,16 Jun 2020,53 mins

Fresh Covid-19 outbreak in Beijing linked to city's largest market

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The Chinese capital Beijing has put more neighbourhoods under lockdown and boosted testing as it tries to contain an outbreak of coronavirus. Booker prize winning author Bernardine Evaristo on becoming the first British black woman to top the UK paperback fiction chart with her novel 'Girl, Woman, Other'. How are Ghanaians coping now that wearing a mask everywhere is mandatory?

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