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In the Pacific, 33 Tokelauns who have been stranded overseas since the start of the pandemic will finally reach home – just in time for Christmas – having spent weeks in quarantine in Samoa.
Radio New Zealand reports the group has set sail on board the MV Mataliki for Tokelau from Apia, where they had to spend 21 days in quarantine (an extra week on the usual mandated figure), after two passengers on their flight from New Zealand tested positive for Covid-19.
The European Central Bank is expected Thursday to unleash more stimulus to help shore up a eurozone economy devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, analysts said, in a move eagerly awaited by financial markets.
AFP: The Frankfurt institution already has a €1.35tn ($1.6tn) emergency bond-buying programme in place, but ECB chief Christine Lagarde all but promised in October that extra support was on the way.
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