Late, short COVID surge on Cooks

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Late, short COVID surge on Cooks

Zahra
Shahtahmasebi
Tu Papa COVID-19 Tent
Patients who presented with symptoms of COVID-19 were seen in a tent behind Tu Papa primary care clinic [NZD]

COVID-19 in the Cook Islands proved challenging but professionally satisfying for health practitioners, Zahra Shahtahmasebi reports, in her final article of a series on the island’s health system

It took nearly two years for COVID-19 to arrive on the shores of Rarotonga. With non-communicable diseases and chronic conditions like diabetes the, Teariki Faireka, Director of primary healthcare Teariki Faireka says COVID-19 didn’t hit Cook Islanders as hard as expected [image: NZD]