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Four repatriation flights are being planned to arrive in Tonga on April 28 and 30. While, a flight from Australia today took more seasonal workers.

Tonga's prime minister is reportedly working on plans for not only a big international airport at Vava'u, but also two inter-island bridges: one in Vava'u to connect Mala Island to Talihau, and another in Tongatapu to connect Patangata to the Eastern Districts

The 135 passengers who were repatriated from New Zealand and Fiji have tested negative for COVID-19. Tonga is on schedule to start vaccinating frontline and vulnerable groups on April 15.

Rugby Union veteran, Toutai Kefu, will return as coach of Tonga’s national team, the ‘Ikale Tahi, the Tonga Rugby Union announced yesterday.

Tonga’s sevens team will take part in a sevens invitational tournament, Takiwhitu Tūturu, next weekend, April 9 and 10, at Hataitai Park in Wellington to help with Olympic preparations.

A 35-year-old man from Mataika was arrested after the seizure of methamphetamine and cannabis on March 31 by the Police Drug Enforcement Taskforce.

New York Times reporting: Citing what they call “the biggest challenge to the global community since the 1940s,” the leaders of more than two dozen countries, the European Union and the World Health Organization on Tuesday floated an international treaty to protect the world from pandemics. The current pandemic is “a stark and painful reminder that nobody is safe until everyone is safe,” the leaders write. The suggested treaty is an acknowledgment that the current system of international health institutions, symbolized by the relatively powerless WHO, a U.N. agency, is inadequate to the problem.

A repatriation flight with 110 passengers arrived in Tonga from Auckland, today. Another flight from Australia was scheduled today, to pick up seasonal workers, who are expected to depart for Australia later this evening.

Tonga is now one of six countries in the Pacific region to remain CoViD-19 free to date.