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Depends what kind of POV switching are you doing, which depends largely on the narrative mode employed:

If the narrator is in 3rd person this is rather common; especially if narrator is established as all-knowing, omniscient entity - â€œwhere you will know more than one person's point of viewâ€.
If the narrator uses 1st person's voice this should be done in a clean fashion. There are efficient devices for this purpose, for example switching at the end of chapter or a story retold through a series of letters or by following certain object (for example a camera with different owners).
There are also other possible switches, from first to third for example, which can be employed for a specific effect: for example to denote different time epoch, or significantly different perspective.

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