Cook Islands panic abates after first ever Covid case proves to be a false alarm

The tiny Pacific country scrambled over the weekend, before tests showed the positive case was historical

The Cook Islands has spent recent days in a state of panic.

On Friday, the tiny Pacific country, one of the few countries to avoid any Covid cases throughout the pandemic, announced its first case: a 10-year-old boy who arrived on a flight from Auckland to Rarotonga, the main island in the country.