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Spain goes under lockdown to fight coronavirus

Police officers cross a virtually deserted square amid concerns over Spain’s coronavirus outbreak in the Basque City of Vitoria, Spain pm March 14, 2020. [Reuters]

Spain put its 47 million inhabitants under partial lockdown on Saturday as part of a 15-day state of emergency to combat the coronavirus epidemic in Europe’s second worst-affected country by the disease after Italy.

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