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Amid pandemic, Pacific islands work to offset food shortages

by Victoria Milko
| December 28, 2020 12:06 AM

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Coronavirus infections have barely touched many of the remote islands of the Pacific, but the pandemic’s fallout has been enormous, disrupting the supply chain that brings crucial food imports and sending prices soaring as tourism wanes.

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