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Latest coronavirus news: Los Angeles reports first death of incarcerated adult

World Health Organization shifts focus to new COVID-19 hotspots.Russia, Africa, the Americas, parts of South Asia and a few countries in Europe are among the regions being monitored.Any one of these could really take hold and take off very, very quickly and we have seen how this virus affects vulnerable populations, WHO’s Maria Van Kerkhove, via CNN.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) projects that the death toll will reach 123,000 in the U.S. by June 20.Experts maintain that pub
By Tim Darnell
June 1, 2020

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