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Italy changes virus count methods at UN agency's urging

by Associated Press
| February 27, 2020 6:05 AM

ROME (AP) — With tourism tanking and panic rising, Italy is changing how it reports coronavirus cases and who will get tested in ways that could lower the country's caseload even as an outbreak centered in northern Italy spreads in Europe, officials said Thursday.

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