As Fiji battles one of the fastest-growing coronavirus outbreaks in the world, the Pacific Island’s Olympic team departed on Thursday for Tokyo on a freight plane.
Their fellow passengers? A shipment of frozen fish.
The coronavirus outbreak had thwarted plans to get the athletes to Japan on regular planes after almost all passenger flights from the country were suspended until the end of July. Only a select number of repatriation and freight flights have been allowed to depart.
The country has been pummeled by the Delta variant of the virus, with u200bu200ban average of 57 daily new cases per 100,000 people over the past two weeks, according to a New York Times database.