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Virus crisis tracks west, ebbing in China; Fed slashes rates

by Associated Press
| March 3, 2020 8:30 AM

PARIS (AP) — The coronavirus crisis shifted increasingly westward toward Europe and the United States on Tuesday, with governments taking emergency steps to ease shortages of face masks for front-line doctors and nurses and the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing the biggest interest-rate cut in over a decade to fend off damage to the economy.

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