Fred Wesley
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I’ll start off tonight with the announcement by the permanent secretary for Health and Medical Services, Dr James Fong, of 10 new cases of COVID-19. That’s as of 4.35pm today. You can read about this on Page 2. However, by 9.15pm, this number had jumped by another 11 new cases! We now have a staggering 21 cases tonight! You can read about this on www.fijitimes.com
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21 COVID-19 cases in total announced today
Zero positive results from 4,000 swab samples sent to Australia
21 COVID-19 cases in total announced today
Zero positive results from 4,000 swab samples sent to Australia
Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong
Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong has confirmed this evening that there are 11 new positive COVID-19 cases.
Ten of the new cases are from one household in Kinoya linked to the Extra Supermarket cluster.
He says the eleventh case is a work contact of case 206 from the Samabula cluster, who works for FICAC.
Ten cases were announced earlier today.
Doctor Fong says contact tracing investigations are ongoing and the public should expect to see the Ministry teams on the ground conducting these investigations throughout Suva.
Indra Singh Manager News and Sports
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May 25, 2021 4:35 pm
There are 10 new cases of COVID-19 with three infections at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Nabua and one being a Navy officer who is not linked to any of the existing cases as yet.
Nine are contacts of earlier announced cases and were identified through ongoing contact tracing and screening investigations.
Apart from QEB, there are three more persons positive from Muanikoso, Nasinu, which is becoming an area of major concern. The others include one each from Tacirua, Kinoya and Navosai, Narere.
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Health Permanent Secretary, Doctor James Fong, says the member of Fiji Navy is from Tacirua and presented to the Nuffield Health Centre in Tamavua with symptoms.
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2021-05-28
Ten cases of breaching the Health Restrictions were recorded over the last 24-hours, five cases filed for Curfew Orders non-adherence while four cases of breaching the containment zone were recorded.
A total of Nineteen Cases were recorded both for not complying to the Health Restrictions and the Curfew Orders.
The Western Division recorded four cases including three people who were found loitering along the Dratabu village area in Nadi during curfew hours while a 21-year-old man was found walking along the Saru Back Road in Lautoka.
Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva
Fijian health authorities recorded 11 more Covid-19 cases late last night to bring the daily total on Tuesday to 21.
A statement released by the government s Department of Information (DINFO) quotes Health Permanent Secretary James Fong as saying another 12 patients had recovered.
10 cases had been announced earlier on Tuesday afternoon and which included three detected at the country s military headquarters at Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Nabua, outside Suva, forcing the shut down of the camp.
The total number of Fijians currently in isolation facilities is 108. Ten of the new cases are from one household in Kinoya linked to the Extra Supermarket cluster. The eleventh case is a work contact of case 206 from the Samabula cluster, who works for the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption (FICAC).