COVID hits one of the last uninfected places on the planet

[turbinetree]

By NICK PERRY and SAM METZ
yesterday

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — When the coronavirus began spreading around the world, the remote Pacific archipelago of Kiribati closed its borders, ensuring the disease didn’t reach its shores for nearly two full years.

Kiribati finally began reopening this month, allowing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to charter a plane to bring home 54 of the island nation’s citizens. Many of those aboard were missionaries who had left Kiribati before the border closure to spread the faith abroad for what is commonly known as the Mormon church.

Officials tested each returning passenger three times in nearby Fiji, required that they be vaccinated, and put them in quarantine with additional testing when they arrived home.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-religion-new-zealand-fiji-27b40edd3d6e94c5b10185e49bbf182f

[underpants]

1. A plane full of disease.

[lame54]

2. Even magic underwear has its limits

[FreeState]

3. This article is BS

I’m a former Mormon and do not have great feelings towards the church - that being said this article is click bate.

The plane was full of Kiribati citizens, mostly missionaries, who had been locked out of their country for over two years due to quarantine. The Kiribati government chose the conditions on allowing the plane back in, and no blame is on the church. Everyone citizen on the flight had a negative PCR test for each passenger on record before flight.