Nauru

Since declaring a national emergency, Nauru had also received aid from other partners to respond to the pandemic.

Nauru's government said "the gold standard" testing machine would significantly reduce weeks of waiting time for testing in Australia.

It said Australia had provided about US$60,000 for the purchase of testing kits and the World Health Organisation had supplied personal protective equipment.

This included 7000 sets of gloves, 13,000 surgical masks and 200 surgical gowns.

The other countries are the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu.

The countries will receive the following grant amounts, which will enable them to kickstart their disaster response plans: $470,000 for FSM; $370,000 for the Marshall Islands; $320,000 for Nauru; and $370,000 for Tuvalu.

This shift has been complicated by Western and Central Pacific tuna fisheries being already fished up to their precautionary biological limits, so any Pacific Island state wishing to go down this route has to acquire fishing capacity, as simply adding new vessels is not an option.

President Lionel Aingimea, who is also Minister for National Emergency Services, ordered certain establishments to be designated residences for quarantines purposes as part of measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 to Nauru.

The Budapest Hotel, as well as rooms in the external block accommodation at Menen Hotel and the Anibare Village are being used as transit stations.

According to the latest Nauru Bulletin, all travelers will be required to travel directly from the airport in an approved transport to the transit station.

The purpose of the meeting was to keep guests updated and provide further information about COVID-19 and other developments in the Nauru’s government’s fight to keep Nauru coronavirus free.

Speaking on the removal of two guests presenting with elevated temperatures, Dr Kieren Keke told guests, “I just want to emphasize that we are being overly cautious. There’s many other causes of fever than coronavirus but we’ve acted because we’ve got the ability to move them (suspected cases) to somewhere different.”

His Excellency said any possibility of COVID-19 will be captured at the airport upon the arrival all of passengers and contain them at the designated transit residences for observation and monitoring for any changes in body temperature and health.

The Minister for Health and Medical Services, Isabella Dageago has been authorized to exercise all powers and functions under the National Disaster Risk Management Act 2016 and to take all Health measures that may be necessary for the purposes of managing and minimising the impacts of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

The new measure was announced by the Minister for National Emergency Services and President of Nauru, Lionel Aingimea in a gazette released over the weekend.

Acting Finance Minister Lionel Aingimea who is also Nauru’s President has issued an Order to that effect.

Traders have also been warned not to hoard goods that are necessary or essential for everyday living of members of the community.

The Order also applies to services.

Traders have also been urged to ensure that good and services for retail purposes are available in reasonable quantities for domestic consumption.

The Prices Regulation(Prohibition of Hoarding and Price Inflation Order 2020 was published in the Gazette on Saturday, 21 March 2020.

Recently, the World Health Organisation declared the Coronavirus to be pandemic. What this means is that the Coronavirus is now a global health issue.

Your Government has taken every step possible to ensure the protection of its people against Coronavirus.

We are setting up a quarantine area at public health. You will see lots of work happening there. We have toured certain areas at topside to see if there are places there feasible for quarantine purposes.

Omo yemero/yobum.

Ngage ekameow, bita edorabat World Health Organisation obabareow yan onab bitune earak Coronavirus oa COVID-19 bwe eiy earak yon ngea ouwaka onab. Yan ngune, bitune earak Coronavirus eiyit imit on ngea towe onab memak.

Bitune wamie dogor oget duwen in weiyorat emedena ngana egonan riring bwe dogin ranga-eta tsinin bitune earak Coronavirus.