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New Yorker stranded in Egypt in virus quarantine hospital

by Associated Press
| March 12, 2020 6:30 AM

CAIRO (AP) — When Matt Swider was tested for the new coronavirus on his Nile cruise in Egypt’s tourist hub of Luxor, he assumed the government was just taking extreme precautions.

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