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'I won't leave! Bali resorts offer tourists incredible deals amid COVID-19 crisis...

• https://www.dailymail.co, By LAUREN FERRI

Bali resorts are offering tourists dirt cheap accommodation as coronavirus leaves the local economy reeling and the streets deserted, with one family paying $240 a month to stay in a luxury villa. 

Ukrainian woman Anastasia Strelevske and her mother Larysa arrived in Bali in January and are among the few tourists to stay on the island after COVID-19 spread over the world. 

The pair pay just $240 a month to live in a brand-new hotel on the beach in Kuta and are planning to stay for the remainder of lockdown.

'Staying here is good, I don't want to go back to my country. Here is good,' she told The Sydney Morning Herald.

Businesses in the tourist hub are either working to strict hours or have closed, but Ms Strelevske said life had not completely shut down.

She does regular yoga classes with 50 other people and goes for walks along the beach with her mother.  

Ms Strelevske said she is happy living in lockdown on the island, but knows she must keep her maintain social distancing to avoid the virus. 

'If I keep my distance, stay healthy, keep my immune [system strong], even if I am sick, I will get better,' she said.


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