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Coronavirus: Biden to ask all Americans to wear masks

Mr Biden says universal mask-wearing should bring a "significant reduction" in Covid-19.

President-elect Joe Biden says he'll ask Americans to wear facemasks for the first one-hundred days of his term to help curtail the surge in coronavirus infections; rising numbers of coronavirus cases in the Gaza Strip threaten to overwhelm the Palestinian territory's healthcare system, experts warn; and Bangladesh has started relocating hundreds of Rohingya refugees to a remote and flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal.

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  • Fri 4 Dec 2020 06:06GMT