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Tonga enters lockdown after first community transmitted COVID-19 cases detected : NPR

Tonga enters lockdown after first community transmitted COVID-19 cases detected : NPR

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[ad_1] This photo shows the Australian Navy’s HMAS Adelaide docked at Vuna Wharf in Tonga’s capital Nukualofa on January 26 to deliver aid following the January 15 eruption of the nearby Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai underwater volcano. Tonga’s deputy chief of mission in Australia Curtis Tu’ihalangingie told Reuters that the infected dock workers were not at […]

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Tonga goes into Covid-19 lockdown after recording first local cases weeks after volcanic eruption and tsunami

Tonga goes into Covid-19 lockdown after recording first local cases weeks after volcanic eruption and tsunami

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[ad_1] Two positive cases were discovered among front line workers at a port in the capital Nuku’alofa, where aid continues to flow in to help with recovery efforts, Tonga’s Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni announced in a press conference, according to local media Matangi Tonga. Tonga was one of only a small number of countries not […]

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COVID-19 concerns force U.N. to prepare tsunami-hit Tonga relief aid at a distance

COVID-19 concerns force U.N. to prepare tsunami-hit Tonga relief aid at a distance

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[ad_1] Tonga cautious about opening borders U.N. planning remote relief operations Clearing airport runway a priority, U.N. says AU/NZ ships carrying relief on way to Tonga Jan 19 (Reuters) – The United Nations is preparing to carry out relief operations for Tonga at a distance to avoid a COVID-19 outbreak in the Pacific island nation […]

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