Tonga finally experiences lockdown after coronavirus reaches its shores

Tonga is only one of several Pacific countries to experience their first outbreaks over the past month

Aid supplies are stacked at the port at Nuku’alofa, Tonga (Christopher Szumianksi/Australian Defence Force/PA)

Tonga is learning to live with coronavirus brought to its shores during aid deliveries following a volcanic eruption and tsunami.

For more than two years, the isolation of the Pacific archipelago nation of Tonga helped keep Covid-19 at bay.