LDS Church-chartered plane brought COVID cases to a remote Pacific nation despite following health precautions

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Kiribati, an island nation between Hawaii and Australia, recently got its first cluster of COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began after a plane chartered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints brought the coronavirus to its shores.

| Jan. 25, 2022, 1:00 p.m.

Some 54 passengers arrived Jan. 14 on the plane from Fiji, and 36 of them tested positive for the virus. They were immediately taken to a quarantine facility,, but the outbreak triggered the Central Pacific republic’s first stringent masking and lockdown procedures. All the passengers “took three COVID-19 tests before leaving Fiji on Jan. 2, 8 and 13 during their pre-departure quarantine period, which began on Dec. 31,” the source reported. “Any passenger who tested positive during this period was excluded from the flight.”

Upon arrival in Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, “the passengers were tested again and immediately escorted to a quarantine center,” Stuff noted. “All passengers were vaccinated prior to arrival, and were doing well” as of last week. The flight from Fiji marked the first plane to arrive since the nation reopened its borders this month,

 

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So….they should’ve just left Tongans to fend for themselves?

Aaa Mormons are so giving they not only go door to door to spread there diseases but now island to island!

The doing a negative story about The Church? Holy 💩! That never happens. I wonder if everyone on the plane tested negative 3 times before they left Fiji?

It was a BYU football 🏈 recruiting trip. 😆

Omg! Utah just keeps on giving.

Didn't this same thing happen in Tonga last year?

Just 'spreading the gospel'

Christopher Columbus and Cortez did the same

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