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Seeking to prevent COVID-19 outbreak, Greenland grounds Christmas flights

“This not the time to be travelling,” health minister tells Greenlanders preparing to visit family for the holiday.

By Kevin McGwin December 3, 2020
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Health officials in Greenland are urging people to forego Christmas travel plans, and even going so far as to halt all flights to and from the country in the days before the holiday in a bid to try to prevent an unmanageable outbreak of COVID-19 in the following weeks.

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