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Lockdowns, tanking stocks: Virus fight shifts to Europe, US

by Associated Press
| March 16, 2020 3:30 PM

MADRID (AP) — The global battle to contain the coronavirus reached a new level of urgency Monday, as governments locked down borders, a new wave of closures and restrictions kept more than 500 million students at home, and pleas went out to funnel masks and ventilators to places struggling with soaring caseloads.

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