Cook Islands braces after Covid-positive traveler

Sunday, 13 February 2022Newsdesk
Cook Islands braces after Covid-positive traveler
The Cook Islands is bracing for its first coronavirus cases after a visitor to the country tested positive.

New Delhi, 13 February2022

As per news report of BBC, in a video posted on Facebook, Prime Minister Mark Brown said it is likely the person was infectious while on the islands "and further likely that the virus is in our community".He warned that the country's high vaccination rate may mean "silent transmission" among citizens.The Pacific archipelago has never had community transmission of cases.While one 10-year-old boy tested positive for the virus in December, authorities later said he was not infectious, and likely had tested positive only because he had been exposed to the illness in the past.

Source - BBC

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