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Up to 12. January – less than three months ago – was koronaviruset limited to China. It was not found a single case outside the country where the virus first appeared.
But the day after was a case discovered in Thailand. Thus were the virus is becoming a global problem. Japan, South Korea and the united STATES followed soon after.
In country after country was new case registered. Koronapandemien has spread like a flaum all over the world.
Until now has more than 1.2 million people had proven infection of the koronaviruset globally, from Nepal to Nicaragua, from Australia to Iceland. Dødstala stig, sjukehusa fyllest up.
Travellers from all over the world struggle with getting home as a result of the koronapandemien.
Photo: Moises Castillo / AP Get koronafrie corner
Is there still any places on earth that is completely free of korona?
the Answer is yes.
the united nations has 193 member states. 2. april was the status that 18 countries had not reported a single case of koronaviruset, according to data from the Johns Hopkins university.
These 18 countries is without verify koronasmitte: Komorane, Kiribati, Lesotho, Marshalløyane, Micronesia, Nauru, North Korea, Palau, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Salomonøyane, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Yemen.
And the Antarctic is the only continent without reported koronasmitte.
Some of the 18 countries could have urapporterte case of infection. North Korea, for example, have officially zero case, the same effect has the war-torn collapsed the country of Yemen.
But there are arguably countries where the virus has not appeared. Most of these countries are small øystatar with few visitors. Seven of the ten countries that, according to the united nations is the least visited in the world, is without koronasmitte.
Helsearbeidarar in Nairobi, Kenya, has the out to fumigate a bus after a passenger in the bus tested positive for the korona 14. march.
Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP Isolated in the Pacific ocean
In a time with strict requirements about physical distance, is øystatane nearest “sjølvisolerande”.
But the president, in one of these countries has yet korona is high on the agenda. Even without registered koronasmitte, is the country in the national crisis.
Nauru is a small dot in the Pacific ocean, nearly 320 kilometres from the closest neighbouring countries – Banaba in Kiribati. The closest major city with direct flights are Brisbane, 4000 kilometers towards the southwest.
Nauru is the second smallest united nations-the state when it comes to land area (after Monaco), and, with a little over 10 000 inhabitants, the second smallest measured by population (after Tuvalu).
It is also one of the least visited places on earth. According to a tour operator, the country has only 160 tourists a year.
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But even a country that is so isolated must take the threat from koronaviruset seriously. A country with only one hospital, no respiratorar and lack of is else announcing can’t take any chances.
In the middle of march set Nauru Airlines flygingane to Fiji, Kiribati and Marshalløyane, and the only route which then again, to Brisbane, was reduced from three times a week to once in the course of fourteen days. After this is all travellers from Australia (for the most part heimvende inhabitants) sending the right in 14-end the quarantine on the local hotels. Any new asylum seekers will also be sending in quarantine for at least two weeks. Australia has a great migrantleir here.
our Goal is to stop the virus at the border. We look at the airport as grenselinja the virus not to get past, ” says president Lionel Aingimea to the BBC.
the President of Nauru, Lionel Aingimea on talarstolen at the united nations in september of last year.
Photo: EDUARDO MUNOZ
most People in Nauru is the head and fatta, ” explains the president. He is takknemleg for the help of other countries, especially Australia and Taiwan, and he find strength in religion.
And while he tries to keep the number of virustilfelle of zero, knoweth he well that the rest of the world are not as fortunate.
Every time we look at the koronakartet it looks as if the world has been given the eruption of meslingar. It is red poking all over the place, ” he says.
We hope that the prayers we pray will help all the other nations who are experiencing tough times, add to have to.
Poland is not the only small stillehavslandet which has declared a national crisis. Kiribati, Tonga, Vanuatu, and several others have done the same.
Dr. Colin Tukuitonga come from Niue in the South Pacific, and feel certain that this is good policy.
– The best they can do is without a doubt, is to keep the virus outside of norway. For if the first coming into the country, it is done, ” he says.
Poorly-developed health care system
Dr. Tukuitonga inhabitants of New Zealand, and has previously worked for Verdsorganisasjonen for health.
Dr. Colin Tukuitonga
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– These places do not have the robust helsesystem. There are small countries, many of them have not respiratorar. A koronautbrot will be able to be fatal, he says.
And, add him to, many øybuarar in the Pacific have already poor health, bl.a. there are many cases of diabetes and heart and karsjukdommar in these countries.
If there would be a serious bright spot in some of the small stillehavsnasjonane, would they have to send the patient abroad. But it is easier said than done, when country after country shut up the limits.
Then, says Dr. Tukuitonga, the very best they can do is to do all they can to keep themselves at zero for as long as possible.
– Isolation, far out to sea, which in many ways has always been a problem, has now become a protection against a livsfarleg virus, he says.
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