Some remote Pacific island nations haven't had a single case of Covid-19 for the past two years. Now they're reopening to the world, but can they handle an outbreak?
of the populations of Kiribati, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu suffer from nutritional deficiency. “There’s a huge incidence of diabetes in almost every island in Oceania,” says Philippe Georgel, a virology and genetics researcher at the University of Strasbourg who has done research in New Caledonia and co-authoredHealth care systems in Pacific island nations are severely limited in terms of equipment, resources, and trained personnel.
As a result, some nations are dealing with a triple burden: the pandemic, the prevalence of non-communicable diseases, and the risk of natural disasters that are common in the region, such as earthquakes and cyclones, says Berlin Kafoa, director for the Public Health Division at the Pacific Community, an international development organization based in New Caledonia, where cases have reached almost 10,000 and the death count is approaching 300.
The first two years of pandemic isolation have also come at a heavy price for the isolated island nations in the Pacific. According to data from the Asian Development Bank, the economies of these countries shrank by
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