Minister for the Pacific Steven Ciob said in a statement to reporters that $354,000 USD will be allocated to fight the Zika virus.
"Stopping the spread of Zika in the Pacific is essential to protect Australia from the virus," Ciobo said.
Australia would work with World Health Organization (WHO) officials and the Tongan government to control the mosquito (Aedes aegypti) population and increase access to testing, said the minister.
On Saturday, health authorities in the Australian state of Queensland confirmed that a child had contracted the virus after a family trip to the Pacific island of Samoa.
The incubation period of the Zika virus, identified for the first time in Africa in 1947, ranges between 3 and 12 days. After that period, symptoms appear, generally lasting between 4 and 7 days, and can be wrongly diagnosed as dengue, which is also transmitted by the bite of the Aedes Aegypti mosquito.
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