Fiji has 1 new border quarantine case of COVID-19.
The new case is a 56-year-old woman who travelled to Fiji from Sacramento, California, arriving in Nadi on flight FJ1811 from Los Angeles on March 25th.
The Health Ministry says she returned a weak positive test result during routine testing while undergoing 14-day quarantine at a government-supervised border quarantine facility in Nadi.
The Ministry says a weak positive test result indicates there was little viral material in the sample.
She has been transferred to the isolation ward at Lautoka hospital, and the management of this case will follow the Health Ministry’s standard protocol for positive cases.
With this latest case there are now 2 active cases admitted at the Lautoka hospital isolation unit.
It has been 355 days since the last case was detected outside border quarantine on April 18th 2020.
Fiji has had 68 cases in total, with 64 recoveries and 2 deaths, since our first case was reported on March 19th 2020. The last 50 cases have been international travel associated cases detected in border quarantine.
A total of 40,300 COVID-19 laboratory tests have been conducted so far.
872 people are undergoing mandatory 14 day quarantine in government supervised border quarantine facilities.
