After dodging the COVID pandemic for two years a health disaster has been declared in the Marshall Islands, as local authorities confirm more than 10 per cent of residents in the capital of Majuro have become infected within a week.The outbreak is spreading from the capital to close-by islandsSince a handful of positive community cases of the Omicron variant were confirmed on August 8, the numbers have skyrocketed to 2,800 in the city of 22,500.
Thanks to strict quarantine rules, the Marshall Islands was one of the last countries to stay COVID-free. On Friday, the Marshalls' President David Kabua signed a "state of health disaster" to give the government access to emergency funding.So far, there have been 3,000 positive cases in a population of around 42,000 across the islands and atolls that comprise the Marshalls.
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