International aid is beginning to mobilize for the Pacific nation of Tonga, after the eruption of an underwater volcano over the weekend. Three people are confirmed dead from the disaster. Ashley Westerman reports that officials in Tonga are concerned that admitting aid workers will bring COVID-19 into a country that has remained almost entirely free of the coronavirus.
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