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Greenland ends Nuuk COVID containment measures

With cases apparently limited to transient construction workers living isolated from rest of city, a ban on leaving Nuuk was lifted and closures of bars and restaurants reversed.

By Kevin McGwin June 1, 2021

Authorities in Greenland have lifted measures to control a feared COVID-19 outbreak in the country’s capital city after determining that what is now six new cases of the virus are all linked to a single construction site staffed by fly-in, fly-out workers.

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