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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

COVID-19 rates plunge as decision nears on US asylum limits

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

One by one, a voice called out the names of 169 people just released by U.S. Border Patrol. Migrants rose from folding chairs in a clinic warehouse and walked to a table of blue-robed workers, who swabbed their mouths.

All but two Cuban women tested negative for COVID-19 that February morning. They were quarantined to motel rooms, while other migrants boarded chartered buses to Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport for flights across the U.S.

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