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Hungary closes stores, schools to curb surge due to variants

by Justin Spike
| March 8, 2021 5:06 AM

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarians on Monday awoke to a new round of strict lockdown measures aimed at slowing a record-breaking wave of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths that are among the worst in the world.

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