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The Fiji Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has been sequestered with staff onsite or placed in quarantine facilities and lab testing temporarily halted.
This after three administration staff members tested positive for COVID-19 that were announced tonight.
Ministry of Health permanent secretary Dr James Fong said they knew there was limited contact between administration staff and the lab personnel because of existing protocols.
However, he said they made this decision as a result of those cases.
“Testing has temporarily halted while decontamination is being completed,” Dr Fong said.
“The onsite staff will continue processing samples after decontamination of the facility and they will be tested and retested frequently during their sequestration period, similar to what is happening at Lautoka Hospital.”
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3 May, 2021, 7:49 pm
An empty Suva bus station during the Suva-Nausori lockdown which began today, May 1, 2021. Picture: JOVESA NAISUA
Tests conducted by the Fiji Centre for Disease Control (CDC) on 791 garment workers and some secondary contacts had come out negative.
Ministry of Health and Medical Services permanent secretary Dr James Fong said they had been able to narrow down the number of work contacts for case 113 – the 52-year-old garment worker – from 877 to 771.
He said they continued to investigate whether there were other contacts that needed to be screened and tested.
“While we do not have any positive results yet from the contacts at the two garment factories, that could change at any point throughout the 14-day incubation window for the virus,” Dr Fong said.
PM and AG visit Fiji Procurement Office yard where food rations are being loaded
PM and AG visit Fiji Procurement Office yard where food rations are being loaded
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Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum today visited the Fiji Procurement Office yard where food rations are currently being loaded.
The food rations are for the Suva-Nausori lockdown zone.
If you live in the lockdown area and need to access this emergency food supply, you can call the toll-free number 161.
They also visited the Fiji Centre for Disease Control today.
FIJI COVID-19 FEVER CLINICS
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COVID-19 vaccination rollout in Fiji
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It comes as six new cases were discovered yesterday, all in quarantine.
Of the two new cases today, one can be linked to an existing cluster while the other has yet to be linked to a known outbreak.
It brings the total number of active cases in the Pacific nation to 20.
Fiji went into a 14-day lockdown on April 26 after several cases of the virus emerged.
Air New Zealand announced yesterday that it s cancelled a Fiji passenger service this week due the Covid-19 lockdown.