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Pacific Update: The latest on coronavirus, and shocking flooding footage from Timor

By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific Correspondent
March 18, 2020

1 NEWS’ Barbara Dreaver presents news from around the Pacific.

In this week’s edition of Pacific Update, 1 NEWS correspondent Barbara Dreaver looks at the latest on the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak and shocking flooding footage from Timor.

Also covered is maths helping Pasifika kids and not forgetting our funny social videos of the week.

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