Two new COVID-19 border quarantine cases in Fiji - Dr Sahukhan

There are two more confirmed COVID-19 border quarantine cases in Fiji.

The Head of Health Protection at the Ministry of Health, Doctor Alisha Sahukhan says these cases are two soldiers aged 25 and 32 who recently returned from duties overseas.

Doctor Sahukhan says these are the cases that they are used to, where people come from overseas and go to the isolation ward at Lautoka Hospital in accordance with their normal protocol for positive cases.

She says with this latest border cases, there are now 10 active cases admitted at the Lautoka Isolation Unit.

Doctor Sahukhan says the first five cases are the older border quarantine cases that were announced up until the end of last week and the recent five are the ones that have just been announced.

She says this means that Fiji has had 77 cases in total since our first case on March 19th 2020.

Doctor Sahukhan says 55 of these cases have been international travel associated detected in border quarantine.

She says the two recent cases who is the quarantine hotel worker and the soldier are our first case of local transmission in over one year.

Sahukhan says 43,241 COVID-19 tests have been conducted with a daily average of 277 test per day over the last 7 days and a weekly average of 18,092 tests a week, over the last two weeks.

She says there are currently 800 people who have recently arrived from overseas and are undergoing mandatory 14-day quarantine in the border quarantine facilities in Nadi.