COVID-19 pandemic in Palau
Infections with or cases of COVID-19 in Palau have not yet become known. In March there was a suspected COVID-19 case in a 73-year-old tourist, a doctor from the USA , whose test result was negative. The island nation of Palau is one of the few countries on earth where there are no COVID-19 infected people (as of June 10, 2020).
background
The Palau 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 .
Location of the islands
The island state of Palau consists of six archipelagos with 356 individual islands, of which only eleven islands are inhabited. The largest island is Babelthuap with 396 km². Around 22,000 people live in the island state. In the island nation there is only one hospital in Koror , the Belau National Hospital .
activities
An emergency to avoid a COVID-19 pandemic was declared on Palau at the beginning of February, which was provisionally limited to April 3. It was extended until April 17th. Associated with this was the closure of all schools and all state-financed events and workshops. All ship trips were canceled, sea ports and airports remained open.
Health checks with temperature measurements for arriving passengers have been set up at Palau's airports. Travelers who show flu-like symptoms, such as high temperature, will have blood and saliva tests done. These people are placed in quarantine until results are available. There is a temporary entry ban for visitors from the People's Republic of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Zones and Macao who have stayed there within the last 14 days. These measures also affect all transit travelers. Citizens of Palau and foreigners with a residence permit in Palau, who all have to go into a 14-day quarantine after arrival, are excluded from these measures.
Suspicions by the government of Taiwan that some seafarers from that country contracted the virus while in Palau were rejected as "very unlikely" by the government of Palau.
Web links
- World Health Organization (WHO): Coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) situation reports on the website www.who.int (English)
- Johns Hopkins CSSE : Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases. (English)
- Website World of Meters : real-time data of the Corona virus pandemic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coronaviris Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report (PDF). April 15, 2020. In: Palau Health Ministery April 15, 2020
- ^ Palau investigating possible coronavirus case . In: RNZ from March 4, 2020
- ↑ Which countries have not reported any coronavirus cases? Al-Jazeera, June 10, 2020.
- ↑ Pulmonologists on the net: Covid-19: Causes . Online at www.lungenaerzte-im-netz.de. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
- ↑ Tagesschau: "Deeply worried". WHO speaks of corona pandemic . March 11, 2020. Online at www.tagesschau.de. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
- ↑ Palau '' . In: WHO from 2016, accessed April 15, 2020
- ↑ Belau National Hospital . In: Electives Network Belau, undated, accessed April 15, 2020
- ^ Coronavirus: A look at cases and restrictions in the Pacific . In RNZ from March 22, 2020
- ^ Palau (Republic of Palau) . In: BMEIA of March 13, 2020, accessed on April 15, 2020
- ↑ Palau plays down possible Taiwan sailors Covid-19 link. In: rnz.co.nz. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
