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WASHINGTON: Of the 176 million people expected to be pushed into poverty by the coronavirus crisis, two-thirds are in South Asia, warned a World Bank report released this week. Officially, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh had the third, seventh- and tenth-most new cases in the world this week. But experts warned that the real situation could be worse as testing rates …

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