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Both sentences in the lead give reasons for the article's existence: being a SARS-CoV-2-free continent, geographically speaking, is an exception, and interesting because of that; and politically, several countries say that parts of Antarctica are parts of the country, so in a political sense, Antarctica does have SARS-CoV-2 cases. More useful would be to know of testing that is done on people travelling to Antarctica: have any flights going there been cancelled? is the pre-flight testing very thorough, e.g. three or four negative SARS-CoV-2 tests required over the space of 1-2 weeks and isolation prior to flying? Since the winter is approaching, I would guess that returns from Antarctica would be a lot more likely than flights going there (in terms of passengers). We do have a small (tiny) amount of material on these types of questions in the article.
The problem with a merger into another article is that this material would risk being placed in an un-obvious place. Most territory-based COVID-19 pandemic articles are in (2019-)2020 coronavirus pandemic in [Country X] articles, and that's where people will expect to find the info.
Boud (
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22:40, 15 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Ah yes. Before 2021 strikes at the doors to end a pandemic, we all have to be informed that 100% of the world has been reached by this virus. Dear Antarctica, may you be blessed and keep it a stable situation. COVID-19 isn't bad with low density population but this is just a unexpected moment in History of the World.
There's a visual issue with a template showing behind reflist content that I've played around with trying to fix and can't. Anyone else (perhaps with more knowledge) willing to give it a shot? -
Purplewowies (
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23:14, 20 May 2021 (UTC)reply
Rothera Research Station
The article doesn't have a reference for the 27 cases in Rothera Research Station, when search for that in web we can see they were suspect cases but the tests turned out negative. - -
Santiagoↀᴥↀ^) ฅ16:37, 22 May 2023 (UTC)reply