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UK govt under fire over virus advice as deaths pass 20,000

by Associated Press
| April 26, 2020 12:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government on Saturday defended the independence of the scientists advising it on the coronavirus after it emerged that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s controversial chief aide had attended meetings of the group.

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