One of the rare countries free of "Corona" announces its first case of the virus

Today, Wednesday, the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu confirmed the emergence of its first case of coronavirus since the start of the global epidemic.

The remote island of 300,000 people was one of the few countries in the world free of COVID-19.

Prime Minister Bob Logman announced the case in a speech to the nation, and reassured citizens that "the country is still safe."

He said, "The government will continue, through a working group for Covid-19, to provide the public with updated information on the situation of Covid-19, and on this case in particular," according to Radio New Zealand.

It is noteworthy that the injury was to a 23-year-old youth who had traveled from the United States to Vanuatu via Sydney and Auckland.

The Ministry of Health said that he did not show symptoms upon his arrival in Vanuatu on the fourth of November, but he routinely re-examined and the result appeared positive on Tuesday.

Logman reported that the man was transferred to an isolation facility for treatment and monitoring, in one of the rare countries in the world that was free of Covid-19.

Vanuatu, which closed its borders last March to prevent the epidemic from reaching it, has only recently allowed its citizens stranded abroad to return to their homes, according to strict health measures.

This very costly measure at the economic level was adopted by a large number of Pacific countries because they did not find a solution to it in light of their fragile health systems.

Thanks to this measure, Kiribati, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu are still apparently immune from the virus.

And at the end of last October, the Marshall Islands and Solomon Islands recorded the first cases of Covid-19, but they were imported infections, and to date they have succeeded in containing them and preventing the transmission of infection to the population.

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