During that period, Tora was quarantined and self-isolated several times in two countries.
Tora left Nuku’alofa in March for a workshop in Samoa.
While in Apia, news broke of the coronavirus global pandemic.
In the Pacific, countries began shutting down their borders leaving the return trip for Tora and other Pacific journalists in limbo.
“I was stuck in Samoa and Fiji for 4 months. I left Tonga on 14 March for a weeklong meeting at the SPREP office in Apia,” Tora said.
