correspondent in Suva
Fiji’s government has taken the most drastic measures since covid-19 hit the country in March last year.
Most of the country is on lockdown from 8pm tonight to 4am on Monday local time.
This comes amid a new covid-19 case confirmed by the Health Ministry, taking the total number of active cases to 50, with 29 transmitted locally.
The authorities have escalated the measures with no businesses allowed to operate for a 56-hour period.
Containment measures have also been stepped around the capital Suva in a rush to trace the Indian variant of covid-19.
The Health Ministry tonight ordered everyone indoors from 8pm amid concerns the B16-17 variant has spread through the community.
The authorities have escalated the measures with no businesses allowed to operate for a 56-hour period. Containment measures have also been stepped around the capital Suva in a rush to trace the Indian variant of Covid-19. The Health Ministry ordered everyone indoors from 8pm amid concerns the B16-17 variant has spread through the community. Fiji now has had 117 Covid-19 cases, 65 recovered and two deaths reported. The ministry has warned that a 52-year-old woman from Nausori Town who tested positive over the past 48 hours may have exposed 887 garment factory employees to the virus. Parallel to that, Health Secretary Dr James Fong told a media conference there are concerns of a further spread of Covid-19 from a returning Fiji citizen who had tested negative before interacting with quarantine personnel before travelling extensively through Suva.
Fong said the man had contact with a soldier - the husband of the woman in Makoi - on the day of his discharge from the managed isolation quarantine facility. He said the fourth case is a 68-year-old man in Rakiraki, while the fifth case is a border quarantine patient. Fiji now has 116 Covid-19 cases, with 49 active and 28 locally-transmitted patients.
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