Tonga’s government on Tuesday announced a nationwide lockdown after two community cases of COVID-19 were discovered in the Pacific island nation, which is still recovering from last month’s volcano eruption and tsunami.
The two cases were detected after the Health Ministry tested 50 workers at the port of the capital Nuku'alofa, where humanitarian relief had been transported from around the world since the eruption, Tonga’s Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni said.
