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Solomon Islands moots intra-regional travel bubble plan

Solomon Islands is pushing for an intra-regional travel bubble. To date no cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu, Solomon Times has reported. Josefa Tuamoto, chief executive of Tourism Solomons says while Australia and New Zealand continue to explore options for a Trans-Tasman bubble, “we believe there is merit in forming a travel bubble of intra-regional Pacific nation groupings.” In total the countries have a population of about 1.5 million, but the bubble would cover a vast area of the Pacific. ... Read more