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Aid to volcano-hit Tonga brings 1st COVID outbreak, lockdown
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For more than two years, the isolation of the Pacific archipelago nation of Tonga helped keep COVID-19 at bay. But last month’s volcanic eruption and tsunami brought outside deliveries of
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Tonga sees small COVID outbreak tied to ships bringing aid after earthquake
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Aid to volcano-hit Tonga brings 1st COVID outbreak, lockdown
Tonga will enter a lockdown Wednesday evening after finding coronavirus infections in two port workers helping distribute aid arriving in the Pacific nation after a volcanic eruption and tsunami. The
By Helen Regan, CNN The Pacific island nation of Tonga has gone into lockdown after reporting its first community cases of Covid-19, weeks after a massive volcanic eruption and tsunami devastated parts of the archipelago.
Two wharf workers tested positive Tuesday. The Ministry of Health has been testing workers there amid international aid shipments after last month's volcanic eruption.
Tonga, one of the last places in the world to have avoided any virus outbreaks, found coronavirus infections in two port workers helping distribute aid.
It is not clear how the virus was transmitted into the Pacific archipelago nation, though the two people who contracted it worked at a port in the capital, Nuku’alofa.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Tonga will enter a lockdown Wednesday evening after finding coronavirus infections in two port workers helping distribute aid arriving in the Pacific nation after a volcanic eruption and tsunami.
Tonga has registered two cases of COVID-19 as international ships and planes rush to the island nation delivering much-needed aid after a major volcanic eruption and tsunami. Follow DW for the latest.
Tonga will go into Covid-19 lockdown Wednesday after the virus was detected in a fresh blow to the Pacific kingdom as it struggles to recover from last month's devastating volcanic eruption, official…
Tonga has gone into lockdown after several people tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. The Pacific island nation is still recovering from a devastating volcanic eruption and massive tsunami. Before the disaster, Tonga was thought to have been coronavirus-free.
For more than two years, the isolation of the Pacific archipelago nation of Tonga helped keep COVID-19 at bay. But last month’s volcanic eruption and tsunami brought outside deliveries of
