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Judi Lynn

(160,214 posts)
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 02:00 AM Mar 2020

Rapa Nui confirms second case of Covid-19

Last edited Fri Mar 27, 2020, 02:58 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: RNZ New Zealand

5:41 pm today

Rapa Nui, or Chilean-governed Easter Island, has recorded its second confirmed case of Covid-19.



Photo: World News Daily

The president of Rapa Nui's indigenous Ma'u Henua community said the case was confirmed today following a first case two days ago.

Camilo Rapu said it was not known how the first person, a Chilean woman living on the island, contracted the illness as she had not been overseas or believed to be in contact with an infected person.

Mr Rapu said none of the woman's family was showing any symptoms.

Nothing was known yet about the second case as the community was in isolation.

The lockdown has caused frustration among many islanders over how long it took Chilean authorities to act after cases on the mainland.


Read more: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/412779/rapa-nui-confirms-second-case-of-covid-19



Adding maps of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Chile:







http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/easter/easter_island.php
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Rapa Nui confirms second case of Covid-19 (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2020 OP
They might need to consider surface area exposure ArizonaLib Mar 2020 #1
But unless those things were air dropped, Igel Mar 2020 #5
I agree - who knows indeed all around on that island ArizonaLib Mar 2020 #8
I was reading in Time Mag today BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #2
2 confirmed cases on Easter Island? Covid-19 really is EVERYWHERE. SunSeeker Mar 2020 #3
Poor Rapa Nui. It's facing another threat brought from the outside world. sinkingfeeling Mar 2020 #4
Tourism perhaps? Sunriser13 Mar 2020 #6
Bad month for Rapa Nui! You may remember this from a couple of weeks ago: Judi Lynn Mar 2020 #7

ArizonaLib

(1,242 posts)
1. They might need to consider surface area exposure
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 02:14 AM
Mar 2020

They should check what has been shipped to the island and/or those items both patients were exposed to.

Igel

(35,191 posts)
5. But unless those things were air dropped,
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 08:29 AM
Mar 2020

there was likely some person-to-person contact.

After that, who knows?

ArizonaLib

(1,242 posts)
8. I agree - who knows indeed all around on that island
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 01:52 PM
Mar 2020

Even if air dropped and the surfaces in items within the air drop were contaminated, everyone having anything to with those items even without person to person contact would be potentially exposed.

But I get your point: who knows?

Would be no harm in checking it out.

BigmanPigman

(51,430 posts)
2. I was reading in Time Mag today
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 04:10 AM
Mar 2020

about the Spanish Flu. It got to every teeny tiny, remote place on Earth somehow. There is no place on Earth to escape a pandemic. No one is safe.

Judi Lynn

(160,214 posts)
7. Bad month for Rapa Nui! You may remember this from a couple of weeks ago:
Fri Mar 27, 2020, 10:25 AM
Mar 2020

Easter Island: Anger after truck crashes into sacred statue
5 March 2020



The mayor of Easter Island has called for motor restrictions to be put in place in the area after a truck collided with a sacred stone statue.

Pedro Edmunds Paoa told local media that the incident had caused "incalculable" damage.

A Chilean man who lives on the island was arrested on Sunday and charged with damaging a national monument, local media report.

The platform on which the statue was mounted was also destroyed.

Stone statues were carved by the indigenous Rapa Nui people to embody the spirit of a prominent ancestor.

About 1,000 of the figures - known as moai - exist on the island, which hosts about 12,000 tourists a month.

More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51750809

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