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 The HMAS Adelaide sitting alongside a wharf in Nuku'alofa
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — The Kingdom of Tonga will go into nationwide lockdown from 6pm on Wednesday. Speaking via Tongan radio, Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku and Minister of Health Dr Saia Piukala held a media conference on Tuesday night to announce the news. They confirmed that two cases of Covid-19...
Digicel Tonga’s technical team working on satellite link equipment
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Poor weather conditions are preventing a team of engineers from repairing a damaged microwave link on the uninhabited island of Kao in Tonga. The microwave link would restore telecommunications in the Vava'u and Ha'apai group of islands, which have been cut-off from the outside...
Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa lifted the nationwide lockdown at 6 o'clock last night (Friday in Samoa) with a new level of restriction in place with no community transmission of COVID-19 yesterday. In announcing the move Friday morning, Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa confirmed that work and businesses...
Royal Palace in Tonga after volcanic eruption and tsunami
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Tonga's King Tupou VI is urging his people to unify and rise from the ashes of the volcanic eruption and tsunami which devastated the country two weeks ago. "Where there's a will, there's a way," the King said. The King was evacuated to his residence inland at 'Eua, just moments...
Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa announced
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa extended its nationwide lockdown on Wednesday for another 24 hours as a precautionary measure with the 26 positive COVID-19 cases in managed isolation. The Samoa Observer is reporting today that Samoan Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa announced the government decision after a...
Dr. Take Naseri
Apia, SAMOA — As of Jan 25, (yesterday in Samoa), 26 positive cases have been confirmed by the Ministry of Health for Samoa. All of them are being managed and controlled in quarantine. Currently there is no evidence of a community transmission. All passengers and frontline workers were swabbed...
Faumuina Fa'afetai Sopoaga
Apia, SAMOA — A doctor says Samoa is well-prepared to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the community. Samoa went into a two-day lockdown on Saturday after 15 people on a flight from Brisbane tested positive for Covid-19 on arrival. University of Otago Pacific health director professor Faumuina...
Satellite image of Nuku'alofa port after volcano eruption
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Tonga faces a long road to recovery, with most of the population affected by the violent eruption and tsunami that followed, and many areas still scrambling to restore basic necessities. Almost 85 percent of the country's population of about 105,000 people has been affected by...
Young man with cases of donated water
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — There is an overwhelming sense relief in Tonga with people thankful the death toll is low following last Saturday's volcanic eruption and tsunami. A journalist in Nuku'alofa, Pesi Fonua, has described the event as apocalyptic. He is the father of RNZ Pacific reporter Finau...
Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa
APIA, Samoa — Samoa Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa has declared a nation-wide lockdown starting today, Saturday, Jan. 22 in Apia (Friday in American Samoa) from 6p.m. until 6.p.m. on Monday, Jan. 24 (Sunday in American Samoa) — after 15 passengers who arrived earlier this week on a flight from...

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