I was shopping with my mother at the dried goods market in Waterloo Street the other day when I overheard a conversation between a customer and a shop assistant.
Knowing that the shop assistant had not returned to her hometown for two years, the customer comforted her, saying: "There are vaccinated travel lanes now and you will be able to travel back home soon."
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