Over 300 primary and secondary contacts of recent cases of COVID-19 are now in quarantine

Over 300 primary and secondary contacts of recent cases of COVID-19 have been quarantined in border quarantine facilities in Nadi.

There are now 19 active cases admitted into hospital isolation units. Five are older border quarantine cases. Nine are recently announced border quarantine cases, and five are locally transmitted cases linked back to the soldier who was infected in a border quarantine facility.

The 2 new locally transmitted cases are the 14-year-old daughter and 7-month-old son of the 40-year-old woman from Wainitarawau in Cunningham.

According to a government statement, the test results indicate that the children are likely in the early stages of infection, and they were unlikely to be infectious when out in the community. However, as a precaution, contact tracing is being conducted for these 2 new cases.

Fiji has had 86 cases in total, with 65 recoveries and 2 deaths, since our first case was reported on March 19th 2020. 63 of these cases have been international travel associated cases detected in border quarantine.

A total of 44,481 COVID-19 laboratory tests have been conducted so far.

There are currently 1,063 people undergoing mandatory 14-day quarantine in government supervised border quarantine facilities in Nadi. They have recently arrived from overseas.