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Friday 27 March 2020 7:27pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga does not have any confirmed cases of COVID-19, after test results on the country's recent two suspected cases, came back negative from Australia today, March 27. The Minister of Health said vigilance and preventative measures need to continue to strengthen Tonga's response to the global pandemic at this critical time. -
Friday 27 March 2020 7:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga will undergo a national Lockdown from 1am Sunday 29 March, to 1am Sunday 5 April, the Prime Minister, Hon. Rev. Dr Pohiva Tu’I’onetoa announced yesterday evening 26 March in a Press Conference at the Fa’onelua Convention Centre.
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Friday 27 March 2020 7:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Seventy-six passengers who were on the last Virgin Australia flight from Sydney to Tongatapu on 18 March, had to overnight in Fiji, when the plane could not land because the landing lights were out at Fua’amotu International Airport. They were required to self-quarantine in Tonga until April 2 under the new travel advisory. Dr Siale 'Akau'ola said today “it is better to overprescribe the quarantine requirements than be sorry later.” Premium content -
Friday 27 March 2020 5:25pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Cable Ltd. cannot pursue its full claim of over US$1.2 million for the damage that it alleges the oil tanker Duzgit Venture caused to its two undersea communications cables in January 2019, because the piece of legislation to support its claim has never been Gazetted, or come into law in Tonga. Premium content -
Thursday 26 March 2020 7:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : It is vitally important that all Tongans take preventative measures to curb the spread of CoViD-19 and respect WHO guidelines, King Tupou VI told the Tongan Legislative Assembly today, in a message read for the closing of the House. Premium content -
Thursday 26 March 2020 7:09pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The postponing of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will give Tongan athlete Pita Taufatofua time to improve in his new sport of sprint kayaking and another chance of Olympic qualification in the sport. Premium content -
Thursday 26 March 2020 6:24pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Traditional Tongan skincare treatments using extracts from plants, such as tuitui and feta‘u oils, cinnamon, tevunga leaf, touhuni, pipi, and coconut oil, are the inspiration for a new range of botanical skincare products, launched by a local company this month. -
Thursday 26 March 2020 5:26pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Ministry of Health has negated public concerns that Tongans had returned to the Kingdom from New Zealand after attending a Mt Roskill event with a person who later tested positive for COVID-19. -
Thursday 26 March 2020 5:12pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Heilala Festival 2020 has been postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Premium content -
Thursday 26 March 2020 5:06pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Australian Volunteers were flown out of Tonga on a charter flight organised by the Australian Volunteers International (AVI) on 25 March, confirmed the Australian High Commission (AHC) in Tonga today. Premium content -
Thursday 26 March 2020 4:34pm
Suva, Fiji : Fakamolemole pe kae tu’u atu e ki’i tohi ni na’a a’u atu ai homau le’o ki hotau ki’i Pule’anga. - Leonaitasi Taukafa. -
Wednesday 25 March 2020 10:04pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s Legislative Assembly will have a soft closing for its 2019/20 session on March 26, without guests due to the coronavirus preventative measures. -
Wednesday 25 March 2020 6:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Two British medical students have found themselves stuck in Tonga and unable to return home after Tonga closed its borders earlier this week to prevent COVID-19 from entering the country. -
Wednesday 25 March 2020 5:52pm
Tokyo, Japan : The Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 has been postponed to next year while the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates globally. Meanwhile, Tongan athlete Pita Taufatofua is delivering live workouts from home, streamed on the Olympic Channel. Premium content -
Tuesday 24 March 2020 6:42pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s Appeal Court for the first time in Nuku'alofa, conducted hearings via video teleconference on March 23, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Premium content -
Tuesday 24 March 2020 6:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Distaquaine Pele Tu‘ihalamaka is the new Chief Executive Officer for the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development, taking up the position from March 23 for four-years. Premium content -
Tuesday 24 March 2020 6:23pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : All schools in Tonga will be shut down on Friday, March 27 for two weeks, as a precaution against the COVID-19 pandemic. Tonga currently has no confirmed cases. Premium content -
Tuesday 24 March 2020 1:03pm
Baltimore, USA : It is likely that eventually, CoViD-19 will become endemic (commonly recurring in the community), and most of us will get infected, says Justin Lessler, an associate professor of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States, stressing that it is most important to slow the speed of transmission. -
Tuesday 24 March 2020 7:52am
Cambridge-MA, USA : As the coronavirus pandemic shuts down the world’s economies, stock markets plummet, and unemployment rises, policymakers will be forced to figure out how to contain the outbreak while preventing financial and economic collapse. Most economic proposals in developed countries focus on cash payments to people, deferred tax payments, and business bailouts. But biomedicine is critical to saving the economy ...a simple immunity test could tell us who doesn’t need to be taken out of economic circulation... and impede an economic Armageddon.- Mark Roe. -
Monday 23 March 2020 11:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Two weeks without incoming commercial passenger flights to Tonga will give the government valuable time to set up essential measures, including equipment for testing in country for CoViD-19 and protective clothing for health workers, and to train more people for the response to the pandemic, which could hugely impact Tonga.
