Coronavirus digest: UK implements tough new restrictions
10 September 2020 |
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Following spike in cases, groups of more than six people will be banned from meeting. Meanwhile, Israel began a week-long campaign of evening curfews and school closures in 40 zones. DW rounds up the latest.
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