Warship did not bring virus to Tonga: Australia
Australian defense chiefs yesterday said that a warship delivering aid to Tonga was not the source of an outbreak that has plunged the previously COVID-19-free Pacific kingdom into lockdown. Residents of the remote island nation, struggling to recover from a deadly volcanic eruption that triggered huge tsunamis, were yesterday ordered to stay at home after two port workers tested positive in the capital, Nuku’alofa. They were the first community cases recorded in the nation of 100,000 people, with officials later confirming another three family members, including two children, also had the v...
Source: taipeitimes.com
