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The Indian community is split over the Government s controversial move to suspend entry to New Zealand for travellers from India, after a spike in COVID-19 cases at the border.
India is currently experiencing a rapid increase in infections and deaths - the number of reported cases each day has multiplied by six in the past few weeks, and deaths by a similar amount.
And there has been a growing number of cases from India detected at the border - more than half of all imported cases in the last couple of months have originated on the subcontinent.
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