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  • LUCAS DE LA CAL

    Asia Correspondent

    @Lucasdelacal

    Beijing

Updated Friday, 7May2021-14: 28

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In mid-April, when the second wave of coronavirus in

India

already exceeded 200,000 infections a day, some Bollywood stars, cricketers and tech moguls fled the country renting private jets.

In the state of Uttar Pradesh, on the border with Nepal, there was also another exodus of thousands of Nepalese migrant workers who returned to their country just days before India closed its borders.

A month ago, Nepal only had 100 cases of Covid-

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