Virus measures targeted by protesters in London despite case spikes
By SYLVIA HUI and VADIM GHIRDA, Associated Press
Published: September 19, 2020, 4:29pm
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LONDON (AP) — Demonstrators took the streets of London, Tel Aviv and other cities on Saturday to protest coronavirus restrictions, decrying how the measures have affected daily life even with infection rates rising in many places and the global death toll approaching 1 million.
In the U.K., the latest official estimates released Friday showed that new infections and coronavirus hospital admissions have been doubling every seven to eight days.
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