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This from AAP:
Australia has slammed shut a loophole that allowed travellers from India to dodge a flight ban by transiting in Qatar, AAP reports.
India’s spiralling coronavirus catastrophe prompted Australia to pause all flights from the Asian nation until 15 May.
Those transit passengers, the airlines advise us, are no longer coming through from Doha.
The advice we had wasn’t fully correct so when we got the additional information we took that action.
Read the original article at The Guardian