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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">FYI</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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From: <strong>Ian Thomson</strong> <<a href="mailto:ithomson.nz@gmail.com">ithomson.nz@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 at 11:53<br>
Subject: [PICISOC] Good COVID news for Pacific Islands<br>
To: Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society Discussion List <<a href="mailto:picisoc@picisoc.org">picisoc@picisoc.org</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some good news about the spread of COVID 19 in the Islands<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Merriweather",serif;color:#353535">As the weeks go by, the COVID-19 health threat is starting to look less severe for the Pacific. Counting from April 29, the last confirmed case was 30 days ago in New Caledonia,
8 days ago in Fiji, 6 days ago in PNG, and 4 days ago in Timor-Leste. Cases continue to mount in Guam, but slowly. In the first week of April, cases almost doubled in Guam. The second week saw about 20 per cent more new cases and a handful of new cases were
registered in each of the last two weeks. Other countries in the Pacific – Kiribati, Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu – remain COVID-19 free (at least in terms of confirmed
cases).</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">More at<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fdevpolicy.org%2fgood-news-for-the-pacific-on-covid-19-20200501%2f&c=E,1,Zl8hT8018J_g32ksfRwVVyAQwRqBy1a-9y2pqBntO_dph2-M6Y1tdt--2hF7qo3mRxjU4scyHpyHFR9tj9ARYP57IM2ydDeLVHN6koCGjEen3xVBJk0Y0uRb&typo=1" target="_blank">https://devpolicy.org/good-news-for-the-pacific-on-covid-19-20200501/</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">While this is god news, it shouldn't stop planning for the worst case, especially as international travel is freed up.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In a way, the Islands are blessed to have extra time to develop plans (hopefully involving ICTs) to control any future breakout.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ian Thomson<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ICT consultant<br>
Based in New Zealand<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Phone +64 (0)22 0946411<o:p></o:p></p>
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