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If you’re just joining us, the big news in the past hour or so is that the US Congress has passed a huge spending package to help deal with the coronavirus. The package takes US spending during the crisis to nearly $3tr dollars.
It will rush new relief to employers and hospitals buckling under the strain of a pandemic that has claimed almost 50,000 American lives and a staggering one in six US jobs.
Good morning and welcome to our live global coverage of coronavirus developments, with me Alison Rourke.
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