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Getting coronavirus updates in Spanish is a mixed bag in US

by The Associated Press
| March 18, 2020 3:27 PM

PHOENIX (AP) — Osvaldo Salas speaks a little English, but not proficiently. The suburban Phoenix man relies on Spanish-language TV and friends and family for information on the coronavirus because state and local officials haven't posted any updates online in Spanish even as the global pandemic widens.

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