Marshall Islands

Covid-19 has turned into the perfect storm for thousands of Marshall Islanders living in the United States.

The Marshall Islands has extended its ban on inbound travel to the country for another month in an effort to maintain its coronavirus-free environment.

The Marshall Islands consul general, in northwest Arkansas in the United States, says the rate of Covid-19 infections in the community seems to be flattening.

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In the US state of Arkansas, Marshall Islanders make up just half a percent of the population, but they represent six percent of all Covid-19 deaths there.

The Marshall Islands Government is contemplating stopping outbound travel as ex-patriate communities in the United States are hard hit by Covid-19.

Marshallese have suffered half the Covid-19 deaths that have occurred to date in the northwest of the US state of Arkansas.

The Marshall Islands has extended its ban on incoming travellers, but repatriated nine Marshallese stranded in Pohnpei and allowed the first group of five essential workers to return.

While Covid-19 has now been confirmed in over 200 countries, the Republic of the Marshall Islands remains one of a diminishing number of countries to have prevented the virus from reaching its shores.

Two Marshall Islanders who drifted at sea for 42 days, and seven others, have returned home as part of the first group to do so since a March travel ban was put in place.

Two Marshallese men who survived a six-week, 1,640km drift are well and awaiting repatriation home from Weno, the capital island of Chuuk state in the FSM.

The Marshall Islands government has expressed increasing concerns over hard drug use, with the Justice Minister announcing the formation of a taskforce to deal with the issue.

The Marshall Islands government is preparing to give one-time payments to Marshallese stranded abroad as a result of a Covid-19 travel ban on incoming arrivals.

Five Marshall Islanders who survived a nine-day open ocean drift are reported safe after their small boat floated into a remote atoll Thursday.

The Marshall Islands government has extended its ban on all incoming travellers for another month because it regards Covid-19 "a national threat".

Guam has asked the US government to enforce screening measures to slow the flow of islanders from the freely associated states coming to the territory during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Copra makers in the Marshall Islands produced one of their biggest crops in history during the first quarter of 2020.

Tax collections in the Marshall Islands are already dropping as local businesses layoff workers in the face of disruptions related to Covid-19.