Island Goes into First Lockdown as 36 Vaccinated Passengers on Flight Test Positive For Covid

22 January 2022 Two years into the pandemic, the Pacific island nation of Kiribati has gone into its first lockdown, after 36 of 54 passengers on the first international flight into the country in 10 months tested positive for Covid. All the passengers were vaccinated. Despite that, the office of President Taneti Maamau said on