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France bans gatherings, frowns on kissing, to fight virus

by Associated Press
| February 29, 2020 8:05 AM

PARIS (AP) — France is banning all indoor public gatherings of more than 5,000 people to slow its snowballing spread of coronavirus cases and recommending that people no longer greet each other with kisses.

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