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Police report filed after an unauthorised entry at a quarantine facility in Nadi – Dr Fong

Police report filed after an unauthorised entry at a quarantine facility in Nadi – Dr Fong

By Vijay Narayan , Iva Danford
27/03/2021
Permanent Secretary of Health Dr James Fong.

A police report has been filed against the employees of an engineering company after breaches at a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Nadi.

This was confirmed by the Permanent Secretary of Health Dr James Fong who says that these people are currently in quarantine.

Dr Fong says this is about an unauthorised entry into the quarantine facility.

Meanwhile, 1 active COVID-19 case remains admitted at the Lautoka Hospital isolation unit while 936 people who recently arrived from overseas are undergoing mandatory 14-day quarantine in government-supervised border quarantine facilities.

It has been 342 days since the last case was detected outside border quarantine on April 18th 2020.

Fiji has had 67 cases in total, with 64 recoveries and 2 deaths, since our first case was reported on March 19th 2020.

The last 49 cases have been international travel-associated cases detected in border quarantine.

A total of 36,597 COVID-19 laboratory tests have been conducted so far in Fiji.

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