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
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)They should check what has been shipped to the island and/or those items both patients were exposed to.
Igel
(35,191 posts)there was likely some person-to-person contact.
After that, who knows?
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)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)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.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,276 posts)Sunriser13
(612 posts)Especially since there were delays in addressing the threat.
Terrible to hear.
Judi Lynn
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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