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Slammed shut: Flights into Australia from India suspended as deaths surge
Tuesday April 27, 2021
All direct passenger flights into Australia from India are being suspended until May 15 as the nation deals with an escalating coronavirus catastrophe.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison at last year’s virtual leaders summit with India. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
The move announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday will impact two passenger services into Sydney and two repatriation flights into Darwin, involving about 500 people.
“This has been a very significant outbreak in India,” he told reporters in Sydney.
He said the decision would be reviewed…
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