Freedom And Fear Life In One Of The Few Countries That Covid Hasn T Touched Tuvalu
While face masks, caps and dresses have become a common sight in most countries during the pandemic years, Tuvalu – one of the few countries that has never had a Covid case – is rare, mostly worn by airport workers such as Nome, whose job it is to unload cargo. Nome knows that if Covid arrives in his tiny country, about 4,000 kilometers from Australia with a population of about 12,000, he will most likely fly through one of the planes carrying medical supplies and food or repatriate Tuvaluans stranded abroad....