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What's Happening: Italy under lockdown, officials infected

| March 10, 2020 8:05 AM

ROME (AP) — Italy spent the first day under a nationwide lockdown after the government extended restrictions on movement in the north to the rest of the country to contain the new coronavirus. As Italians awoke to a new reality and virus cases continued to climb, Chinese President Xi Jinping’ made his first trip to the city where the global epidemic first emerged. The contrast illustrated the global east-to-west spread of the virus.

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