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Austria prints a postage stamp to remember Covid-19 by, on toilet paper

'Corona stamp' [Photo: Leonhard Foeger]

Austria’s postal service has united two aspects of the coronavirus pandemic in a stamp printed on toilet paper that people can also, at a push, use for social distancing. The 2.75 euro “corona stamp” comes in sheets 10 cm wide, or a tenth of the 1 metre that the government advises members of the public to keep apart from each other, symbolised in official campaigns by a baby elephant.

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