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Residents of the Yeoville neighborhood of Johannesburg queue to enter a grocery store Saturday, March 28, 2020. South Africa went into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus. The COVID-19 coronavirus symptoms can include fever and cough but some suffer more severe symptoms like pneumonia and sometimes requiring hospitalization. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Residents of the Yeoville neighborhood of Johannesburg queue to enter a grocery store Saturday, March 28, 2020. South Africa went into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus. The COVID-19 coronavirus symptoms can include fever and cough but some suffer more severe symptoms like pneumonia and sometimes requiring hospitalization. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

March 28, 2020

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Virus infections top 600,000 globally with long fight ahead
March 28, 2020 7:50 a.m.

Virus infections top 600,000 globally with long fight ahead

BERLIN (AP) — The number of confirmed coronavirus infections worldwide topped 600,000 on Saturday as new cases stacked up quickly in Europe and the United States and officials dug in for a long fight against the pandemic.