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Is there a reasonable notion of universal cover for schemes over arbitrary fields?

Let $X$ be smooth projective variety, such as an elliptic curve. We know that $X$ does not have a universal cover in the category of schemes. However, if $k = \mathbf{C}$, then $\tilde{X}$ exists as ...
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