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Australia Defends Plan to Create Island Quarantine Camp for Wuhan Evacuees

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Australia Defends Plan to Create Island Quarantine Camp for Wuhan Evacuees

Australia is preparing to send potentially hundreds of its citizens rescued from Hubei province to remote Christmas Island.

Australia Defends Plan to Create Island Quarantine Camp for Wuhan Evacuees
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Australia’s government on Thursday defended its plan to send citizens evacuated from the epicenter of China’s novel coronavirus emergency to a remote island used to banish asylum seekers and convicted criminals, despite warnings that that some Australians would prefer to stay in China.

Australia is preparing to send potentially hundreds of its citizens rescued from Hubei province to a quarantine camp on remote Christmas Island. The Indian Ocean island has been used by the government in a widely condemned policy of banishing asylum seekers who attempt to arrive by boat to offshore camps.

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