Aid agencies in Vanuatu say that around 100,000 people are still in need of emergency shelter, but any help is still being hampered by coronavirus restrictions more than a week after Tropical Cyclone Harold hit the island nation
Vanuatu's rigid coronavirus lockdown is hindering critical relief efforts to rebuild the island country after it was pummelled by Tropical Cyclone Harold, aid agencies said Saturday.
Australia, New Zealand and China have rushed in emergency aid but distribution has been hampered by strict quarantine requirements after Vanuatu - one of the few remaining countries without confirmed coronavirus infections - closed its borders.Tropical Cyclone Harold clean-up hampered by coronavirus with Vanuatu reluctant to open bordersBut humanitarian workers were struggling to get supplies to those most in need, said Jacqueline De Gaillande, the Red Cross secretary-general in Vanuatu.
"It will be very hard for the economy to come back. We need to have a recovery period which will last at least a year," she told AFP.SAVE THE CHIDLREN Winds in excess of 200 kilometers per hour slammed into Vanuatu, severely damaging hospitals and homes, leaving communities cut off by flooding and roads blocked by fallen trees.
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