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4 new border quarantine cases of COVID-19 in Fiji

4 new border quarantine cases of COVID-19 in Fiji

By Shanil Singh
17/04/2021
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There are four new border quarantine cases of COVID-19 in Fiji.

The first two cases are a 38-year-old woman and a 15-year-old boy who travelled to Fiji from the Philippines and arrived in Nadi on flight NZ952 from Auckland on April 8th.

The other cases are two men aged 69 and 38 who are family members that traveled to Fiji from India and arrived in Nadi on flight FJ1362 from Singapore on April 10th.

The Ministry of Health says all four border quarantine cases returned positive test results during routine testing while undergoing 14-days quarantine.

They have been transferred to the isolation ward at the Lautoka Hospital.

There are now 5 active cases admitted at the Lautoka Hospital isolation unit.

It has been 364 days since the last case was detected outside border quarantine on April 18th 2020.

Fiji has had 72 cases in total, with 65 recoveries and 2 deaths since our first case was reported on March 19th, 2020.

The last 54 cases have been international travel-associated cases detected in border quarantine.

A total of 42,492 COVID-19 laboratory tests have been conducted so far.

There are currently 698 people who have recently arrived from overseas undergoing mandatory 14-day quarantine in government-supervised border quarantine facilities.

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