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Vanuatu has registered its first case of the new coronavirus, shortening the list of places that have not been affected by the global pandemic.
The island nation of just under 300,000 people, located in the southern Pacific Ocean, reported its first case of Covid-19 on Tuesday, according to the CIA.
The positive test was registered in a Vanuatu citizen who returned to the nation from a “place of greater risk” in the United States, reported the country’s Ministry of Health.
The case was a 23-year-old asymptomatic man who returned to Vanuatu from the United States on November 4, according to the Vanuatu Ministry of Health.
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He was physically distanced from other passengers on the plane and “personal protection measures were applied and maintained during the flight, throughout the arrival process, during transport to and during check-in at the quarantine facility,” the ministry said in a statement. release.
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Several small nations have remained Covid-19 free. Until now, Vanuatu was one of them.
The ministry added: “The person had been identified during the pre-trip search as if he was traveling from a higher risk location, therefore he was sitting separately in the back of the plane and was examined and transported separately from other passengers. arriving, “the ministry said in a press release.
The man did not share a room with anyone else while in the quarantine facility, according to the Health Ministry.
He also “adhered to all appropriate measures during the trip and quarantine.”
The only positive test is not considered an outbreak.
Few places in the world are left that have not reported positive cases of Covid-19, according to the World Health Organization in its table “Situation by country, territory and area” on its website.
Almost all are remote locations, including the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Samoa, and Tonga.
There are more than 52 million cases worldwide, including more than 10 million in the US, the most of any country, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
– USA Today
