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New Zealand Deploys Troops to Border to Prevent COVID-19 Spread

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   New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Wednesday the
   government will deploy about 500 troops at quarantine facilities and
   border areas to help stop the spread of COVID-19 into the nation from
   those who might be infected with it.
   A government statement says the 500 hundred troops will bring the total
   number of military personnel supporting the COVID-19 response to 1,200,
   the largest New Zealand deployment force since the country sent troops
   on peace-keeping mission to Timor-Leste on a peace keeping mission in
   the early 2000s.

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