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The coronavirus outbreak has led to a child care crisis that threatens to undermine the reopening of the US economy, the Associated Press reports.
More than one-third of families report that someone has stayed home from work to mind their children because of the outbreak, according to a nationwide survey by the Urban Institute, an economic policy research group.
Churches and mosques will reopen in Nigeria from Tuesday, the chairman of the presidential taskforce for Covid-19 has said.
Boss Mustapha, the country’s most senior civil servant, also said a lockdown in the northern city of Kano would be eased, one of a number of changes over four weeks from Tuesday.
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