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World Service,04 Aug 2020,53 mins

Peru enlists Venezuelan doctors to fight Covid

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Peru, with the second-highest rate of infection in the whole of South America, enlists thousands of Venezuelan health workers in the fight against covid-19. . We'll hear about a major study on what effect closing and reopening schools actually has on the spread of the virus. And a heartbreaking report from the jade mines of Myanmar on how poverty drives young men to risk their lives in the deadly hunt for the precious mineral.

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