Australians arriving home from India face old mining-camp quarantine
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The flight will be the first after the lifting of a two-week ban on anyone coming from India.
The first repatriation flight for Australians from -ravaged India will arrive home on Saturday with up to 150 citizens and permanent residents heading for two weeks of quarantine in an old mining camp in the remote Northern Territory. The flight will be the first after the lifting of a two-week ban on anyone coming from India, including Australian citizens, aimed at keeping out a fast-spreading variant of the novel coronavirus. India has reported more than 3,00,000 daily coronavirus infections for the past three weeks, overwhelming its health system.
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