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UK set to extend lockdown amid signs outbreak nearing peak

by Associated Press
| April 16, 2020 4:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government was poised Thursday to extend a nationwide lockdown for several more weeks, as health officials said Britain’s coronavirus outbreak — one of Europe’s worst — is nearing its peak.

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