Rattled world 'at war' with coronavirus as deaths surge in Italy, France
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Hundreds of millions of people faced a world turned upside down on Wednesday by unprecedented emergency measures against the coronavirus pandemic that is killing the old and vulnerable and threatening prolonged economic misery.