Disaster-hit 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 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 to report a single Covid infection, having closed its borders in March 2020.
In this photo provided by the Australian Defence Force, HMAS Adelaide is docked at Nuku'alofa, Tonga, on January 27, after carrying disaster relief and humanitarian aid supplies. In a bid to keep the virus out of its borders in the wake of the eruption and tsunami, contactless aid deliveries were set up.
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