All 618 personnel onboard HMAS Adelaide have tested negative for COVID-19 after their compulsory Day 12 tests and they have also completed their mandatory 14-day quarantine period.
They can now disembark their ship under the agreed COVID safe measures to support the Fijian Government’s TC Yasa response efforts without risking COVID-19 exposure for Fijians.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Dr James Fong says all ADF members who have been deployed on HMAS Adelaide have complied with Fiji’s rigorous COVID-19 and quarantine requirements.
Australia’s Acting High Commissioner to Fiji, Anna Dorney says last January, Fiji sent RFMF personnel to Australia to help Australia respond to unprecedented bushfires and this January, Australia is supporting the Fijian Government respond to TC Yasa.
She says their Vuvale Partnership has never been stronger.
The embarked forces and crew of HMAS Adelaide will spend the remainder of their time in Fiji focusing on readying schools in areas affected by the cyclone.
This will include providing affected schools with water tanks or generators and repairing or rebuilding some schools.
