19 active COVID-19 cases in Fiji

5 locally transmitted and 14 border quarantine cases confirmed

By Vijay Narayan

22/04/2021

Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong.

There are now 19 active cases of COVID-19 in Fiji.

Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says this is the highest number of active cases that Fiji has ever registered.

14 of these cases are at the border, and five are locally-transmitted cases.

Fiji also has six new border quarantine cases.

One is a 38 year old man who arrived from Malaysia on April 8th.

The other five are members of a family that arrived on 8th April from the Philippines, two other members of the same travelling family had tested positive during entry testing; this was announced on April 17th.

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