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Cases of China’s Coronavirus are increasing
The first suspected case of the virus is being treated in Australia.
Chinese state media says six people have died and nearly 300 hundred people are infected with the disease. Cases have been identified in South Korea, Japan and Thailand.
Also on the programme: We’ll hear what Joe Lockhart, former press secretary to President Bill Clinton, makes of the current impeachment proceedings; and an international agreement comes into force to protect the Titanic.
(Photo: people wearing masks in the street in Beijing Credit: EPA/ WU HONG.)
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