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From May 3, Australia will ban its citizens from returning from India, and violators will be fined or even five years in prison. The policy was slammed by Australian public opinion after it was introduced, Prime Minister Morrison responded on Wednesday, saying it was in Australia’s “best interests.”
Morrison said in an interview that the policy of banning the return of its citizens from India is in Australia’s “best interests” and could prevent a third wave of outbreaks, Australian News Network reported Wednesday. Mr Morrison said he was “very sympathetic to India” but the infection rate at an isolation facility in the Northern Territory had increased sevenfold since people returned from India.
