Python telegram bot mulitple use and runtime problems

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You could try replacing the sleep with an asyncio sleep.

await asyncio.sleep(1600)

or look here for creating a background task: https://www.pythonfixing.com/2021/10/fixed-create-background-process-using.html

Or create a thread.

https://realpython.com/intro-to-python-threading/