Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong has announced 1 new case of COVID-19.
The new case is a household contact of the latest Vunimono/Nadali cases announced on Wednesday.
Doctor Fong says contact tracing investigations are ongoing for this individual.
1 patient has recovered, which means there are now 57 active cases in isolation facilities.
2 are border quarantine cases, 45 were locally transmitted, and 10 are under investigation to determine the source of transmission.
He says cases under investigation are considered as community transmission until proven otherwise.
Fiji has had 190 cases in total, with 129 recoveries and 4 deaths, since our first case was reported on March 19th 2020.
A total of 80,946 COVID-19 laboratory tests have been conducted since they started testing in early 2020.
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