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Virus fears keep Australians away on Christmas day in Sydney’s Bondi beach

By AFP
25 December 2020   |   4:33 pm
Sydney's Bondi beach -- normally packed with dressed-up surfers celebrating Christmas -- looks much emptier this year as the threat of a growing cluster of cases in northern Sydney keeps the crowds away.

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