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Australia initiates social distancing to slow virus spread

Personal restrictions put in place may cause greater short-term economic harm, but will be a far better way to manage this crisis.

First, the spread of a tiny bug from the wet markets of Wuhan closed down the ristorantes of Rome. Now it has shuttered the bistros of Paris and the tapas bars of Madrid.

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