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Tonga's Prime Minister believes the "resilience and strength" of people will get the kingdom through the impacts of the volcanic eruption, tsunami and now a Covid-19 outbreak.
Tonga has extended its nationwide lockdown for another 48 hours with officials manually contact-tracing close contacts in order to ring fence the virus.
The government has confirmed there are now five positive cases of Covid-19. Work is underway to establish the source of the infection and identify which variant it is.
RNZ Pacific's Lydia Lewis spoke exclusively with Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku.