Fiji has new border quarantine case from Papua New Guinea

A new border quarantine case of COVID-19 has been announced.

The Ministry of Health says the new case is a 55 year old man who travelled to Fiji from Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, arriving in Nadi on flight FJ1920 from Brisbane on March 12th.

He returned a positive test result during routine testing while undergoing 14-day quarantine at a government-supervised border quarantine facility in Nadi.

The man has been transferred to the isolation unit at the Lautoka Hospital in accordance with the standard protocols for positive cases.

Since the last update on March 17th, there has been 1 new recovery, leaving this new border quarantine case as the 1 active case currently admitted at the Lautoka Hospital isolation unit.

It has now been exactly 1 year since Fiji recorded its first case of COVID-19 on March 19th 2020.

Since our first case was reported, Fiji has now had 67 cases, with 64 recoveries and 2 deaths.

The Health Ministry says the last 49 cases have been international travel-associated cases detected in border quarantine. It has been 335 days since the last case was detected outside border quarantine on April 18th 2020.

34,782 laboratory tests have been conducted, with a daily average of 210 tests per day over the last 7 days, and a weekly average of 1615 tests per week over the last 2 weeks.