The people of Timor Leste woke up on Sunday morning to an extraordinary situation: large parts of their capital, Dili, were underwater.

On Saturday morning, the skies opened, and the rain didn't stop until Sunday afternoon.

It was so heavy and unrelenting that much of the city's downtown region, including the presidential palace, the national hospital, and thousands of homes, was inundated.

The floods came at the exact moment that the country was scrambling to control a major COVID outbreak.

Today on The Signal, Timor Leste's worst floods since the 1970s, and what it means for their knife edge moment in the pandemic.

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Raimundos Oki, journalist, Timor Leste

Dr Jeremy Beckett, GP and Director of health NGO Maluk Timor