Relief efforts ramping up in Tonga, more aid arrives

the country's many islands.

"This disaster has shaken the people of Tonga like nothing we have seen in our lifetime," Mr Sione Taumoefolau, secretary-general of Tonga Red Cross, said in a statement.The US Agency for International Development , said the United States is providing an additional US$2.5 million in humanitarian assistance and the guided missile destroyer USS Sampson, part of a multinational effort, arrived this week to support the efforts in Tonga.

An Australian warship expected to arrive in coronavirus-free Tonga on Wednesday was to deliver aid without human contact after

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