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Financial pain deepens as 57 countries exposed to virus

by Associated Press
| February 28, 2020 3:30 AM

TOKYO (AP) — A deepening health crisis became an economic one too Friday, with the virus outbreak sapping financial markets, emptying shops and businesses, and putting major sites and events off limits.

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