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Two Kings who tested positive for coronavirus travel to Orlando bubble

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Reinforcements for the Kings are on their way to Orlando, Florida.

A day after stating that four members of the team’s traveling party didn’t make the trip, Kings coach Luke Walton told reporters Saturday that two of the players who had tested positive for the coronavirus have been cleared and will travel to the Disney World campus.

Shooting guard Buddy Hield, center Alex Len

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Thailand expects to delay plans for ‘travel bubble’ on virus worries

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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand expects to delay plans for so-called travel bubbles given a resurgence in coronavirus infections in countries that had managed to contain the initial outbreak, a senior official told Reuters on Wednesday.

Thailand partially lifted a three-month ban on foreign visitors this month and had been planning to further boost tourism, a key contributor to its economy, by creating travel bubbles later in the year with countries like Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong that had managed to contain the virus.

But fresh outbreaks are creating uncertainty, Tourism Authority of Thailand Governor Yuthasak Supasorn said.

“The travel

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‘Desperate’ Fiji eyes virus-free tourism bubble

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Tourism-reliant Fiji has proposed a “travel bubble” to welcome visitors from virus-free countries, as the South Pacific holiday hotspot desperately tries to revive its stalled economy.

Without streams of international travellers flocking to their palm-fringed shores, tens of thousands of Fijians such as Ben Danford have been left without work.

Danford who was laid off from his job as a river guide after borders closed in March, said he and his former colleagues were scraping a living as best they could.

“All of the guys now are focusing on farming, planting root crops and selling them for daily needs and

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