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Churches in New York are being used as temporary coronavirus testing centres in an effort to bolster outreach to Black and Latinx neighborhoods, the Huffington Post reports.

People queued in a long socially distanced line around the block to get tested at Bethany Baptist Church, a congregation in Brooklyn, New York, just one day after it had launched its testing site.

Burundi holds its first competitive presidential election next week since a civil war erupted in 1993, but simmering political violence and fears that campaign rallies could accelerate the spread of the coronavirus have marred campaigning, Reuters reports.

President Pierre Nkurunziza, who has faced accusations of political repression at home and abroad, is stepping down after 15 years in office, although the former rebel leader is set to remain a prominent force in the East African nation, one of the poorest countries in the world.

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