Tonga's recovery effort hampered by COVID lockdown, 1 month on

World Bank pegs economic damage from eruption at nearly a fifth of GDP

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Tonga's recovery efforts have stalled in the face of disrupted communications and a COVID-19 outbreak. © Reuters

FUMI MATSUMOTO, Nikkei staff writer

SYDNEY -- Tonga's first outbreak of COVID-19 and the resulting lockdown have complicated the island nation's recovery from the volcanic eruption of a month ago.

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