Any Unknown or Unlisted Aircraft Manufacturer
Air Traffic Control Fully Certified
Air Traffic Control Time Certified In Pos 1 (yrs) 3
Training / Qualification; Troubleshooting; Workload; Communication Breakdown; Confusion; Distraction; Situational Awareness; Time Pressure
ATC Issue All Types; Conflict Airborne Conflict; Deviation - Speed All Types; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Air Traffic Control Issued New Clearance
ATC Equipment / Nav Facility / Buildings; Airport; Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors; Staffing
First day back after being off for two weeks for COVID-19 quarantine; we don't even have half of our normal staffing which is already low due to COVID.  Total number of CPC's for the day is only 6 when normally it would be at least XX.I get put on the LC1 position with no assist or LC2; I was told that there was a CFR [Call For Release] in effect for ZZZ.  It ended being super busy and it seemed like there was no flow put in place; we were pretty much operating business as usual.  I did not receive much spacing on final and I even had to send an aircraft around because of an overtake and lack of runway separation.  Approach also sent in an uncoordinated early turn IFR jet from the north east; I had to adjust his flight path to de conflict him from the [aircraft in the] traffic pattern and from a departure I had rolling on [Runway] XXR.  This created another conflict with another arrival they had doing 180 kts that they never slowed down.It was pretty overwhelming to work that volume/complexity of traffic after two weeks off and not being able to ease back into the work flow; especially when we have limited staffing/positions open and with TRACON not following the LOA's and traffic flow directives.We are going to be operating in this limited capacity working 6 days a week 10 hours a day for the next week.  There needs to be better communication and an understanding of the unfortunate circumstances that we will be working under for the next week.  It is completely unsafe to operate business as usual and I'm hoping there will be better coordination going forward.
Tower Controller reported an airborne conflict resulting in an aircraft having to execute a go-around. Controller cited staffing and traffic volume as a contributing factors.