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As many as 20,439,652 people have recovered as of now. Of the total caseload, the United States has recorded 6,674,458 infections and 1,97,633 deaths followed by India, which has over five million cases.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img border=0 width=738 height=410 id="_x0000_i1037" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D68D9F.B6C07130" alt="coronavirus, coronavirus news, covid 19 news, coronavirus global update, global coronavirus update, corona news, covid 19 us, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 russia, russia coronavirus, usa coronavirus cases, coronavirus us, us coronavirus news, coronavirus latest update, coronavirus today update, corona cases worldwide"></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Clowns Perlita and Tapetito, wearing protective gear amid the new coronavirus pandemic, speak with resident Enrique Zeballos as they arrive to disinfect his home free of charge, in El Alto, Bolivia, Friday. (AP)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Brazil has 4,455,386 cases while Russia has 1,081,152, followed by Peru (744,400), Colombia (736,377), Mexico (684,113) and South Africa (655,572), according to the data by John Hopkins University.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><strong><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:red;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>Here are the top developments globally:<o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>First case-free day for New Zealand in five weeks<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>New Zealand has reported no new confirmed cases of the coronavirus for the first time in more than five weeks. Friday’s report also marked the fourth consecutive day without any cases of community transmission. All recent cases have been found among quarantined travelers returning from abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Authorities have still not pinpointed the origin of the outbreak in Auckland in August, which they believe was imported. The city had been temporarily placed in lockdown. New Zealand has reported just over 1,800 cases and 25 deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img border=0 width=759 height=506 id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image009.jpg@01D68D9F.90117CF0" alt="coronavirus, coronavirus news, covid 19 news, coronavirus global update, global coronavirus update, corona news, covid 19 us, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 russia, russia coronavirus, usa coronavirus cases, coronavirus us, us coronavirus news, coronavirus latest update, coronavirus today update, corona cases worldwide"></span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <br>Health officials from the district office wearing protective gears disinfect as a precaution against the coronavirus as a man wearing a face mask rides a motorcycle in Incheon, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>China to make decision on WHO vaccine program snubbed by Trump<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>China faces a major test in its vaccine diplomacy, with a deadline fast approaching on whether it will officially join a World Health Organization-backed effort to ensure everyone across the globe is inoculated against Covid-19.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Friday is the final day for governments to decide whether to take part in Covax, an $18 billion initiative that aspires to give lower-income countries the same access to vaccines as wealthier nations. Beijing has said it “supports” Covax without clearly saying if it’s putting any money into the project. The confirmed list of participants will be published on Monday, Sept. 21, according to the WHO.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Former Trump aide speaks out against him; now for Biden<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>A former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, who served on the White House coronavirus task force, said President Donald Trump once suggested that Covid-19 might be a good thing because it would stop him from having to shake hands with “disgusting people”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Olivia Troye is the latest former member of the Trump administration to speak out against him and urge voters to deny him a second term. She joins a growing list that includes Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, and former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci. Trump said Thursday that he did not know Troye, who was Pence’s homeland security adviser.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Meanwhile, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden Thursday went after Trump again and again over his handling of the pandemic, saying the President’s downplaying of Covid-19 was “criminal” and his administration was “totally irresponsible.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>“You’ve got to level with the American people — shoot from the shoulder. There’s not been a time they’ve not been able to step up. The President should step down,” Biden said to applause from a CNN drive-in town hall crowd in Moosic, outside his hometown of Scranton. Speaking about Trump’s admission that he publicly played down the impact of the virus while aware of its severity, Biden declared: “He knew it and did nothing. It’s close to criminal.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Covid-19 hits Lebanese prison as inmates jockey for release<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Lebanon’s largest prison grappled with an alarming coronavirus outbreak on Thursday as many inmates refused to take preventative measures or get tested under the impression that catching the virus could speed up their release as part of a rumored general amnesty the head of the country’s doctors union said. Over 200 of the 3000 detainees at Roumieh Prison have tested positive in recent days, Sharaf Abu Sharaf president of Lebanese Order of Physicians told <em><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm'>The Associated Press</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>The outbreak in the prison, east of Beirut, notorious for overcrowding, comes as Lebanon is witnessing a sharp increase in coronavirus cases and deaths Some detainees’ families have urged the state to issue amnesty to certain detainees to reduce the possibility of the virus sweeping through the prison population.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><img border=0 width=759 height=519 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image010.png@01D68D9F.90117CF0" alt="Coronavirus Vaccine, China vaccine, Covid-19 vaccinem WHO, WHO vaccine program, Trump, China-Trump, world news, Indian express"></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Texas eases virus rules as cases drop, but bars still closed<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Texas is ready to relax coronavirus restrictions for the first time in months, Republican Gov Greg Abbott announced Thursday, but bars remain closed indefinitely and a mask mandate is still in place following a massive summer spread. In allowing restaurants and gyms to let more people inside, as well as lifting a ban on elective surgeries and nursing home visits under certain criteria, Abbott said a dramatic drop in hospitalised Covid-19 patients has made it possible to begin easing restrictions put in place when new cases surged in June. Texas has nearly 14,500 confirmed deaths from Covid-19, the fourth-highest in the nation with the vast majority of those deaths occurring this summer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Hemingway’s favorite Key West bar reopens from virus closure<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Sloppy Joe’s, the iconic Key West bar that Ernest Hemingway frequented during the 1930s, reopened Thursday after closing six months ago because of the coronavirus pandemic. By noon, the bar had already reached the 50 per cent capacity allowed by law, including three Ernest Hemingway look-alikes. Concerns about Covid-19 had forced cancellation of the 40th Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest held at Sloppy Joe’s each July during the subtropical island’s annual Hemingway Days festival.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Charlie Boice, who won the contest in 2015, traveled nearly 250 miles (400 kilometers) from Jupiter, Florida, to attend the reopening. “Coming back to Sloppy Joe’s is a wonderful thing,” Boice said. “For most people, it’s just a destination on a cruise or a destination on vacation. But for the Papas, this is home.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img border=0 width=759 height=510 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image011.jpg@01D68D9F.90117CF0" alt="coronavirus, coronavirus news, covid 19 news, coronavirus global update, global coronavirus update, corona news, covid 19 us, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 russia, russia coronavirus, usa coronavirus cases, coronavirus us, us coronavirus news, coronavirus latest update, coronavirus today update, corona cases worldwide"></span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>In this photo provided by the Florida Keys News Bureau, Ernest Hemingway look-alikes, including from left, Dusty Rhodes, Tim Stockwell and Charlie Boice chat with bartender Lou Gammel, right, at Sloppy Joe’s, Thursday, in Key West, Fla. (AP)<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Bangladesh economy shows early signs of pandemic recovery<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>A rebound in garment orders after demand crashed during spring shutdowns is helping to revive the Bangladesh economy. Apparel makers, the country’s main export industry, say they are looking ahead to Christmas orders from the U.S. and other major markets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Remittances from Bangladeshi workers employed overseas have also recovered, helping to relieve pressures from a pandemic quasi-shutdown during the spring. The Asian Development Bank reported this week that the economic comeback was encouraging. It is forecasting the economy will grow at a robust 6.8 per cent annual pace in the fiscal year that ends in June if current conditions persist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><img border=0 width=759 height=506 id="_x0000_i1033" src="cid:image013.jpg@01D68D9F.90117CF0" alt="coronavirus, coronavirus news, covid 19 news, coronavirus global update, global coronavirus update, corona news, covid 19 us, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 vaccine, covid 19 russia, russia coronavirus, usa coronavirus cases, coronavirus us, us coronavirus news, coronavirus latest update, coronavirus today update, corona cases worldwide"></span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Trainees work at Snowtex garment factory in Dhamrai, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. After months of decline in exports of its garment products, Bangladesh’s economy is showing signs of recovery. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>Peru president faces impeachment vote amid pandemic turmoil<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra’s job is on the line Friday as opposition lawmakers push through an impeachment hearing criticised as a hasty and poorly timed ouster attempt in one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>Lawmakers appeared to be far short of the two-thirds majority vote required to remove Vizcarra from office, but even if he dodged the impeachment attempt analysts warned that he would not escape the ordeal entirely unscathed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box;outline: 0px'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'>His ability to carry forward the anti-corruption agenda he has sought to make the hallmark of his short but eventful administration could be further jeopardized if Vizcarra is perceived as having engaged in influence peddling himself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:21.0pt;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3E3E3E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:115%;background:white;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Invest Wisely!</span></i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Bulls n Bears <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Telephone: </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="tel:%2B263%204%202927658" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>+263 4 2927658</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Cellphone: </span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><a href="tel:%2B263%2077%20344%201674" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>+263 77 344 1674</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'>Alt. 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