Reach 1000000 confirmed cases a stark warning from the World Health Organization is the coronavirus pandemic closes in on a new global monster. A u. S. Navy captain says infections are spreading uncontrollably on his ship and that his calls for help are going on out. And russian president Vladimir Putin is working remotely after a doctor he met last week tested positive for the fires. So then the u. K. Is rapidly becoming one of the worst affected countries by coronavirus in europe there have been more than 500. 00 deaths in 24 hours for the 1st time including a 13 year old child the government is again being forced to defend its plan for testing saying it hopes to get hundreds of thousands of tests a frontline staff within weeks has been under growing pressure to expand the program especially for vulnerable and National Health Service Workers nearly 30000 people are infected with the virus. Can i just make it absolutely and the Prime Minister has been very clear about this is as well
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They were living in stamford connecticut in 1963. It was north stanford thats where they have more land. It was our family. It may have been two or three. Thats how they segregated themselves. What you remember about being one of the few african americans. I felt very insecure shy, i did not want to be different in any other way. It was part of my experience there. For fifth grade i was the only black child in the school. I dont think they wanted us to have that level of isolationn they were not setting us out there as an experiment. He wanted to live there and have privacy. It was 45 minutes in new york city. They actually ran into housing discrimination. It was actually with the health of injury and simon. She lived in a community during the summertime that we were able to even find this particular property. We have a trophy room in our house. And wherever we went public it was a different experience. He would walk into the dining room and everyone would turn and look. Y the downspou
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