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</xml><![endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> The virus, which causes the respiratory infection Covid-19, was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China, in late 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The outbreak spread quickly across the globe in the first months of 2020 and declared a global pandemic by the WHO on 11 March.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A pandemic is when an infectious disease is passing easily from person to person in many parts of the world at the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Europe and North America saw their first major outbreaks in April but as they began to ease, Latin America and Asia started seeing cases spike.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Governments across the world have been forced to limit public movement and close businesses and venues in a bid to slow the spread of the virus. 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