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Good morning. We'll get the live blog started today with some of the things that have been happening since we were last here:
Although the news is not surprisingly dominated by the coronavirus at the moment, there's still quite a bit of other stuff happening as well:
This ends our live blogging for March 19. Be sure to check back tomorrow for our continuing coverage.
Train to bring 900 Ukrainians back from Prague:
By RFE/RL's Ukrainain Service
Some 900 Ukrainians are embarking on March 19 on a train journey from Prague to Kyiv as part of an evacuation plan amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The train is set to travel through the Czech Republic and Poland, where it will make a stop at Przemysl, before heading to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv and the capital.
Yevhen Perebiynis, the Ukrainian ambassador to Prague, tweeted that more than 3,000 Ukrainians residing in the Czech Republic had asked to be evacuated.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Zhytomyr, Serhiy Sukhomlyn, said the city located 140 kilometers west of Kyiv recorded its first coronavirus infection, bringing the total number in the country to 18.
Sukhomlyn said the patient, aged 56, had recently returned from Austria.
The illness has claimed two lives in Ukraine.