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Returning Team Tonga face five weeks of quarantine [1]

Christchurch, New Zealand

Monday, August 9, 2021 - 20:42.  Updated on Monday, August 9, 2021 - 20:48.

Flags of all nations arrive, with most of them carried by athletes, during closing ceremony of the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. (James Hill/The New York Times)

Four members of Tonga's Olympic team arrived safely in Christchurch yesterday, on their way home to Tonga, ‘Amanaki Fakakovikaetau the Chef de Mission - Team Tonga, told Matangi Tonga tonight. They will spend a total of five weeks in quarantine in New Zealand and Tonga.

After arriving in Christchurch on Sunday from Narita, Tokyo, ‘Amanaki along with the Secretary General-TASANOC Takitoa Taumoepeau, and the Athletic Team Siueni Filimone and Ronald Fotofili, will spend 14 days in an MIQ facility (Novotel Christchurch).

“All are well and good spirit with a negative Covid-19 certificates from Tokyo Olympic Village test centre,” said ‘Amanaki.

He said that the last member of the team in Tokyo, Paula Sitapa (the NZ based Taekwondo coach) had represented Tonga in the closing ceremony last night, before catching a flight. “He got a seat to fly back to Christchurch today with the rest of the NZ Olympic team.”

Pita Taufatofua had left Tokyo on Saturday evening to return to Australia,

‘Amanaki said that other Team Tonga members, who had traveled back last week from Tokyo, were still in MIQ in Christchurch with only less than a week to go.
 
“All the Tonga based athletes and officials are expected to catch the repatriation flight on 25th August, for the three week quarantine in Tonga.“
 
He said that the New Zealand Olympic Committee had assisted and facilitated the return of Team Tonga via New Zealand. Their participation in Tokyo 2020 had been made possible by support from the Tonga government and Ministry of Health.
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