Minister for Health Doctor Ifereimi Waqainabete says passengers that were in the three flights which the first COVID-19 patient was in, are in the incubation period and it is important to make sure they are isolated.
He says the Ministry is looking at them with purpose for the 14 day period.
Doctor Waqainabete says their teams visit the people that were on those flights at least once a day and are in contact with them through phone calls and they will also make sure with Police that these people are not up and about in the community.
He adds that it’s also very helpful for the family members to encourage them to follow the rules of isolation and self quarantine that the Ministry has in place.
The Minister says the Incident Management Team which is being managed by Doctor James Fong has made sure they have isolation facilities.
He adds that we cannot have community transmission in a chaotic and uncontrolled scale that some other high income countries have.
