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Women carry food at a local market in Harare, Zimbabwe, Friday, March 27, 2020. Zimbabwe's public hospital doctors are on strike over what they called a lack of adequate protective gear as the coronavirus begins to spread in a country whose health system has almost collapsed. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

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Italy is 2nd country to pass Chinese virus case total
March 27, 2020 10:56 a.m.

Italy is 2nd country to pass Chinese virus case total

LONDON (AP) — Deaths surged in Italy and Spain on Friday, troubling new outbreak sites bubbled in the United States, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first leader of a major country to test positive for the coronavirus that has sickened more than a half-million people worldwide.