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World Service,11 Mar 2021,53 mins

Twelve months of Covid-19, officially

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One year ago the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a worldwide pandemic, we hear from Italy which was the first Western country to impose a total lockdown. An important moment of diplomacy in the Middle East as Israel’s Prime Minister is in the United Arab Emirates to meet the top leadership there. And why are rare species of fish washing up dead on the shores of South Africa?

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