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7:15 am: China's Hubei province, where Covid-19 was first detected, set to relax lockdown
It marks a major milestone in China's fight against the coronavirus outbreak. Theories about the origins of the outbreak include that it emerged from a seafood market in Wuhan, Hubei's provincial capital, in December. The number of cases rose to 215,216, up from 213,435 the day before. Spain has reported the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections worldwide.
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