1 new COVID-19 case from Vunimono cluster and 1 healthcare worker from Colo-i-Suva Isolation tests positive
Condition of 2 patients deteriorate
1 new COVID-19 case from Vunimono cluster and 1 healthcare worker from Colo-i-Suva Isolation tests positive
Condition of 2 patients deteriorate
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong
Two new local transmission cases of COVID-19 have been announced while two patients have been entered into intensive care after their condition deteriorated.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the first is the husband of case number 159 from the Vunimono cluster.
He has been in isolation since 12th May 2021.
The second case is a healthcare worker from the Colo-i-Suva isolation ward who registered a positive COVID-19 test result during a routine swabbing.
We cannot let that nightmare happen in Fiji, he said in a televised address. We still have time to stop it happening but a single misstep will bring about the same Covid tsunami that our friends in India, Brazil, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States are enduring.
Fiji has largely contained the virus through strict isolation measures and border controls, recording 109 cases and just two deaths in a population of 930,000.
There are currently 42 active cases, 18 of them detected at the border and 24 locally transmitted.
The cluster began when a soldier contracted the virus at a quarantine facility and transmitted it to his wife, who then exposed up to 500 people at a funeral.