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London Transit Worker Dies After Man Claiming to Have COVID-19 Spits on Her

HeadlineMay 13, 2020

In Britain, a railway ticket office worker has died of COVID-19 after reportedly contracting the virus after a man claiming he had the illness spat at her in March. Belly Mujinga was working at the Victoria station in London when she and a female colleague were assaulted by the man, who has yet to be identified. Within days, both women fell ill. An investigation has reportedly launched to trace the man’s whereabouts.

Meanwhile, dozens of refugees from Syria, Somalia and Afghanistan, who for months had been living in squalid refugee camps in Greece, have finally been reunited with family members in Britain. The unprecedented reunion comes after months of lobbying from refugee rights groups as refugee family reunification in Europe has mostly been halted by the pandemic.

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