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Coronavirus poses tough challenge for economic policymakers

by AP Economics Writers
| February 26, 2020 12:05 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fast-moving coronavirus isn’t just confounding health officials. It’s also bedeviling policymakers and central bankers who are struggling to assess the economic damage from an outbreak that's reached 37 countries and territories, infected 80,000 people and killed 2,700 worldwide.

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