All patients recover from COVID-19 – PM

Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says Fiji has cleared the last of our active COVID-19 patients.

Bainimarama tweeted that with no deaths, our recovery rate is 100 percent.

He says even with our testing numbers climbing by the day, it is 45 days since Fiji recorded its last case.

He says this has been achieved through answered prayers, hard work, and affirmation of science.

Fiji has just cleared the last of our active #COVID19 patients.

And even with our testing numbers climbing by the day, it's now been 45 days since we recorded our last case. With no deaths, our recovery rate is 100%.

Answered prayers, hard work, and affirmation of science!

— Frank Bainimarama (@FijiPM) June 4, 2020

Meanwhile, congratulatory messages have started to pour in for Fiji.

The US Ambassador to Fiji, Joseph Cella thanked Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and the entire team for their exemplary swift, decisive, strong and transparent leadership which helped navigate Fiji to scale up and maintain its defences against this global killer virus while being hit by Cyclone Harold no less.

Cella also thanked Dr. Alisha Shaukhan and her team at the Fiji Centre for Disease Control for their hardwork.

Fiji’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Satyendra Prasad congratulated Bainimarama, Minister for Health Dr. Ifereimi Waqainabete and the health workers and Fijians across the country for achieving this historic milestone.

The United Nations in the Pacific tweeted that Fiji’s commitment to science, solutions and solidarity has yielded the results they were all hoping for.