Europe faces harsher COVID-19 restrictions

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Italy is introducing a raft of new restrictions after the country recorded its highest coronavirus infection rate on Sunday. Slovakia is planning on testing its entire population, over the age of ten in the next couple of weeks. And in Britain, people in Wales learned today that they are heading for a “firebreak lockdown.” The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry joins host Marco Werman with the latest.

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