Palau reported two people arriving on August 15 were tested positive for COVID-19. These mark the country's first active positive COVID cases although they are travel-related.
I was actually on the August 15 United Airlines flight, which brought Palau the two travel-related COVID cases from Guam, and spent a week in Palau, experiencing the reactions of the government and the people of Palau to the situation. So, I wrote an op-ed article titled "Don't Consider Palau A Zero Risk Place" and submitted to Palau's newspaper Island Times to offer my advice to Palauans.
The article was published on August 24, 2021: https://islandtimes.org/dont-consider-palau-a-zero-risk-place/
