Soasoa man charged with one count of failure to comply with COVID-19 orders

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Soasoa man charged with one count of failure to comply with COVID-19 orders

By Iva Danford

29/05/2020

The 54-year-old man from Soasoa in Labasa who had allegedly breached self-quarantine orders after arriving into Fiji has been charged and will be produced in the Labasa Magistrates Court today.

The man returned from a religious gathering in India and allegedly spread COVID-19 to a few people in the country.

The Ministry for Health had earlier confirmed that they were able to trace a total of 834 people who had come into contact with the man who is the 9th case of COVID-19.

He has been charged with one count of failure to comply with orders.

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