The Border Health Protection Unit has been established in the CAAF compound in Namaka, Nadi, and this facility will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing quarantine operations.
Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong says the Ministry in preparation for easing of restrictions has remodelled health service provision.
The function of the Border Health Protection Unit will be supplemented by a container laboratory that is situated in close proximity.
Dr. Fong says the Ministry of Health Communication team together with their multi-agency community engagement team are working with community leaders to identify and strengthen mechanisms that will facilitate the monitoring of vulnerable persons and persons with COVID like symptoms and encourage them towards timely engagement of health care services so that medical teams have a greater opportunity to provide timely treatment.
He says the potential for transmission in any community will be slower, and the ability to contain the outbreak better when they achieve a high vaccination rate and also maintain strict adherence to COVID safe measures.
95.8% adults have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine while 72.5% are now fully vaccinated nationwide.
592,242 adults in Fiji have received their first dose and 448,243 have received their second doses.
17,996 children in Fiji have received their first dose of the vaccine.
Meanwhile, 70 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am today.
Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong says there have been 103 new recoveries which means that there are now 12,841 active cases.
There are no new COVID-19 deaths however, there have been 7 deaths of COVID-19 positive patients. These deaths have been classified as non-COVID deaths by their doctors.
Dr. Fong says there have now been 624 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji.
He says they have also recorded 478 COVID-19 positive patients who died from the serious medical conditions that they had before they contracted COVID-19.
There are currently 83 COVID-19 patients admitted in the hospital.
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