Tonga has gone into lockdown after five fresh cases of Covid were recorded in Nuku’alofa.
They included three new covid-19 cases which have been confirmed this afternoon bringing the total number of patients to five.
The latest transmission involved a woman and her 3 and 4 years old children.
The additional cases come after two port workers tested positive and their results were confirmed in a press conference last night.
The Ministry of Health is expected to update the situation every two days during the lockdown which began today at 6pm.
It is expected that more cases could be detected in the community after places of interest had been revealed.
As we reported this morning, a kindergarten in Fangaloto in eastern Nuku’alofa and a church in western Tongatapu have become close-contact locations of interest for Covid-19.
The Ministry of Health has asked anyone who was at the Matahau Free Wesleyan Church last Sunday at 10am and at 5.30pm on Monday 31 or at ‘Ela’s preschool at 11-12pm on Monday or the whole day on Tuesday to self-isolate and get tested immediately or contact the Ministry on phone 080019 or 0800935.
There are also four other close-contact venues in Tongatapu listed today, including a food outlet, liquor shop and a convenience store.
They are:
| Saturday 29 January | 12 – 1pm | Rodney Liquor in Fanga ‘O Pilolevu |
| 1-2pm | Solomone Ikahihifo convenience store in Kolomotu’a | |
| Sunday 30 January 2022 | 10am | Matahau Free Wesleyan Church prayer services |
| Monday 31 January | 10-11am | MBF Bank |
| 11am – 12pm | ‘Ela’s kindergarten in Fangaloto | |
| 12-2pm | Chinese Shop KFC, Vuna Road opposite Taufa’āhau Domestic Wharf | |
| 5.30pm | Evening prayer service at Matahau Free Wesleyan Church | |
| Tuesday 1 February | 9-10am | MBF Bank |
| Whole day | ‘Ela’s kindergarten in Fangaloto |
