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HONOLULU (KITV4) After remaining nearly COVID-free during the pandemic, the Marshall Islands, a Pacific island nation with a population of about 60,000, is now facing its first major outbreak.
MAJURO — The number of deaths from Covid in the Marshall Islands has increased to nine as of Wednesday and Health authorities anticipate the next several weeks will see more
professional and worrying. it s a way the russians can downgrade what is happening but also imply that the solutions are within russian control in the sense that they can go out and arrest some people and deal with the problem. one of the last remaining countries to avoid an outbreak of covid i9 is now seeing a surge in infections, after community transmission was found just over a week ago. the marshall islands closed their borders at the start of the pandemic, implementing strict quarantine measures to keep the virus out. but a new outbreak in the pacific nation has forced restrictions to be implemented with a state of health disaster declared. a little earlier i asked jack niedenthal, secretary of health and human services for the marshall islands how they d managed to keep the virus at bay for so long. i think people need to
the virus at bay for so long? here s jack niedenthal, secretary of health and human services. we had strict protocols and quarantine, strict monitored quarantine for people coming in from the united states and when they get here they were also under strict quarantine orders so we managed to do it for over two years without a single community case of covid 19. we had a few border cases but this ba.5 0micron variant is very contagious, almost on par with measles. it s what we see through the community. i was the 11th person on the first day we discovered it, when i did home and did a self test i had it. i had already recovered, pretty much, but what we have been doing to fight it, we were prepared for this. we spent the last two years preparing. we had new covid wards here, we got all the vaccines, we got the ability to test, a lot of information and now we have all the therapeutics