29th September, 2020 A chartered flight funded by the RSE Employers, will depart from Christchurch New Zealand to Tonga on October 9 with 141 RSE workers only.
The passengers will be made up of 25 females and 116 males.
The National Emergency Management Committee (NEMC) met this afternoon at Makeke Camp and confirmed the number of the passengers.
All returning passengers will be escorted to Makeke Camp at Vaini, where they will be quarantined for 14 days.
In the meantime, NEMC is planning to bring the next repatriation flight from Auckland, New Zealand as well as the first repatriation flight from Brisbane, Australia by the end of next month.
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Issued by the: Ministry of Meteorology, Energy, Information, Disaster Management, Environment, Climate Change & Communications