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Washington state bans big events amid rising virus deaths

by Associated Press
| March 11, 2020 11:05 AM

Washington state's governor announced a ban on gatherings of more than 250 people in virtually the entire Seattle metro area Wednesday to try to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the state where at least 24 people have died.

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