Cook Islands reports first Covid case amid fears of ‘silent transmission’

Muri Beach, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Cook Islands has remained Covid-free throughout the pandemic. Photograph: Melanie Cooper/The Guardian

One of the last remaining countries without Covid-19 - the small Pacific nation of Cook Islands - has reported its first case of the virus.

Prime minister Mark Brown said the first case arrived on an international flight from New Zealand on 10 February.