Tens of thousands join Greta Thunberg's Bristol climate strike
The climate change student activist Greta Thunberg recently arrived in Bristol by train and was driven to the city's center in a Nissan Leaf electric vehicle, where more than 30,000 joined her in the Youth Strike for Climate, many of them students skipping school. Traffic was brought to a standstill in some parts of the city as businesses shut down and schools closed due to the protests.
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Greta Thunberg believes she's had the coronavirus
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