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Finally, we see how the coronavirus pandemic has driven people to return to a local delicacy in Malawi: roasted field mice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1529,1076],"tags":[457,5063,691,908,26448,3514],"class_list":["post-70874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news","tag-government","tag-medical","tag-nigeria","tag-strike","tag-suspend","tag-unions","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria&#039;s medical strike suspended as unions give government more time - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/nigerias-medical-strike-suspended-as-unions-give-government-more-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria&#039;s medical strike suspended as unions give government more time - GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our correspondent in Nigeria brings us the latest on the doctors&#039; strike there which has now been suspended. 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