The Pacific island nation of Palau is one of the world’s last countries still free of the coronavirus, and it’s doing all it can to stay that way.

As the contagion closes in and outbreaks grow in surrounding nations, President Tommy Remengesau has taken the bold step of shutting off his tourism-dependent nation, and is ready to keep it shut until the rest of the world is over the worst.

“It became a question of economics or people’s lives,” he told Reuters in a video interview.

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