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Associated Press: Coronavirus could erode global fight against other diseases

Published April 17, 2020 at 1:38 am

A man wears a protective suit and a gas mask as he walks along a street in central Moscow on March 21, 2020 as Moscow city officials have limited public gatherings of more than 50 people and schools across the country will close for three weeks from March 23 in an effort to stop the spread of the COVID-19 infection caused by the novel coronavirus. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) / Russia OUT

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Lavina D’Souza hasn’t been able to collect her government-supplied anti-HIV medication since the abrupt lockdown of India’s 1.3 billion people last month during the coronavirus outbreak. Marooned in a small city away from her home in Mumbai, the medicine she needs to manage her disease has run out.