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Greenland cancels flights from capital after logging new COVID-19 cases – Metro US

Greenland cancels flights from capital after logging new COVID-19 cases

FILE PHOTO: COVID-19 test center in Nuuk
FILE PHOTO: COVID-19 test center in Nuuk

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Greenland has cancelled all flights and ship departures from its capital Nuuk after registering six cases of COVID-19, Greenlandic Sermitsiaq newspaper reported on Tuesday.

“We have a spread of infection in Nuuk and one infected in Ilulissat,” the Greenland’s chief medical officer Henrik Hansen told a press briefing according to Sermitsiaq.

(Reporting by Nikolaj Skydsgaard and Stine Jacobsen; Editing by Catherine Evans)