The clean-up campaign aims to clean Tongatapu of rubbish that could become breeding grounds for mosquitoes that spread the virus. Zika Response 2016 started on Monday and it is scheduled to end on March 2 or March 3.
The Disaster Management Officer of the Tonga Red Cross, ‘Inoke Taufa said that once the Zika virus was confirmed in Tonga and spreading Red Cross termed that as a disaster that needed to be attended to.
