COVID-19 pandemic in Nauru

Infections from the COVID-19 pandemic in Nauru have not yet become known. The island state of Nauru is one of the 15 countries on earth where there are no COVID-19 infected people (as of June 10, 2020).

background

The COVID-19 pandemic is occurring as part of the global COVID-19 pandemic that began in China in December 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic affects the novel disease COVID-19 . This is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the Coronaviridae group and belongs to the group of respiratory diseases . From March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the outbreak of the novel coronavirus as a global pandemic .

Island location

Nauru is known as the place in the world that very few tourists visit. A travel company put the number of tourists who come to Nauru annually to 160 people.

The 21 km² island is isolated in the Pacific , about 3,000 kilometers away from Australia and about 300 kilometers from Kiribati , also a small island nation. On this island live about 11,000 people and about 200 boat people who reached in a vain attempt to Australia on a boat to make there on asylum in Nauru in immigration detention in Nauru Regional Processing Center were established. There is only one hospital on the island, the Republic of Nauru Hospital in Yaren .

Course and measures

Lionel Rouwen Ainginmea (2019)

Reactions and actions in the country

On March 16, 2020, the state of emergency to avoid the COVID-19 pandemic was declared on Nauru and is limited to 30 days. Nauru Airlines only flies to Brisbane in Queensland , Australia, every two weeks ; there used to be two to three flights a week with around 50 people and flight crew. Ships are still docking in the port on Nauru, but the crews are not allowed to leave the ships and the cargo is being decontaminated.

Naurus President Lionel Aingimea assumes that there is no case of Covid-19 infection on Nauru.

Travel restrictions

According to the Foreign Office , the Ministry of Health in Nauru has issued entry bans for people who have been in certain countries in the last 14 days. a. all EU countries. A 14-day quarantine is imposed on all immigrants who are to be spent in accommodations designated by the Nauruan government .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Which countries have not reported any coronavirus cases? Al-Jazeera, June 10, 2020.
2. ↑ Pulmonologists on the net: Covid-19: Causes . Online at www.lungenaerzte-im-netz.de. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
3. ↑ Tagesschau: "Deeply worried". WHO speaks of corona pandemic . March 11, 2020. Online at www.tagesschau.de. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
4. ↑ Owen Amos: Coronavirus: Where will be the last place to catch Covid-19? . In: BBC News, April 3
5. ^ Republic of Nauru Hospital (RONH) . In: DAISI, undated, accessed on April 14, 2020
6. ↑ Stefan Armbruster: Nauru has declared a state of emergency to manage the impact of the coronavirus pandemic . In: Special Broadcasting Service of March 17, 2020
7. ↑ The last bastions in the fight against the virus . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from April 14, 2020
8. ^ Nauru: Travel and safety information . In: Foreign Office of April 7, 2020, accessed on April 14, 2020