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Covid-19 pandemic in Portugal: Country faces world's worst virus surge

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Portugal on Thursday reported twin Covid records with 303 new deaths and 16,432 cases in a 24-hour period, prompting a decision to limit foreign travel to "special cases". Of the total 11,608 deaths recorded so far in the country of some 10 million people, more than 3,000 have come during the last two weeks. FRANCE 24's Sarrah Morris tells us more.

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