Covid-19 training session
Photo: Supplied by Ministry of Health, Tonga
Earlier this month, the Ministry of Health announced that passengers would spend 21 days in managed quarantine with no home isolation to follow.
Chief Executive, Siale Akau ola, told
RNZ Pacific the initial plan of 14 days in managed quarantine and then seven days home isolation meant staff didn t get to rest. We re just increasing the time in managed quarantine to allow our staff time-out. During the one week of home quarantine it was a lot of work for our surveillance team because they still had to go around all those passengers, wherever they were staying and check on them, Akau ola said.