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Wuhan facing ‘wartime conditions’ as global coronavirus deaths reach 724
With businesses around the world suffering, Beijing tightens controls
Increasingly desperate officials in the quarantined epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak have tightened controls on an already frightened population, likening the growing crisis to “wartime conditions”.
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