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US to close borders to India citing devastating Covid numbers
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India's Covid-19 human crisis spirals with record 386,000 new cases
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Bubble opens New Zealand to Aussie vaccine tourists
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Disneyland opening shows California's Covid turnaround
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Bubble breach: Cook Islands passenger travels to Perth from Auckland
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