Covid-19 Pandemic and Derogation to Human Rights

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Covid-19 Pandemic and Derogation to Human Rights. / Lebret, Audrey.

In: Journal of Law and the Biosciences , Vol. 7, No. 1, 04.05.2020.

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Lebret, A 2020, 'Covid-19 Pandemic and Derogation to Human Rights', Journal of Law and the Biosciences , vol. 7, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaa015

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Lebret, A. (2020). Covid-19 Pandemic and Derogation to Human Rights. Journal of Law and the Biosciences , 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaa015

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Lebret A. Covid-19 Pandemic and Derogation to Human Rights. Journal of Law and the Biosciences . 2020 May 4;7(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaa015

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Lebret, Audrey. / Covid-19 Pandemic and Derogation to Human Rights. In: Journal of Law and the Biosciences . 2020 ; Vol. 7, No. 1.

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