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Video: Life With 10 Kids Under Hungary's Lockdown

• 30 Apr 2020 10:44 AM

For Hungarian ex-world champion canoeist Marton Joob and his wife Dora, who so far have had 10 children, with an 11th on the way - and now that schools are closed and the country is under lockdown, looking after them has become a full-time job with sometimes unforeseen consequences.

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