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Published 20 May, 2020 06:28pm

Nations reopen yet struggle to define ‘a new normal’

As nations around the world loosen coronavirus restrictions, people are discovering that “the new normal” is anything but, AP reports.

What a return to normal looks like varies widely:

For hungry migrant workers in India, it was finally being able to catch trains back to their home villages to farm while city jobs dried up.

For hundreds of cruise ship workers stranded at sea for months, it was finally reaching shore in Croatia.

For wealthy shoppers, it was returning to the reopened boutiques of America’s iconic Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, California.

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