Variant will be determined once samples are sent to our reference lab in Melbourne

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Variant will be determined once samples are sent to our reference lab in Melbourne – Dr Sahukhan

By Iva Danford

21/04/2021

Head of Health Protection at the Ministry of Health Doctor Alisha Sahukhan. [image: Fijian Govt.]

The Head of Health Protection at the Ministry of Health, Doctor Alisha Sahukhan says the variant of COVID-19 in Fiji will be determined once the samples are sent to their reference lab in Melbourne, Australia.

Doctor Sahukhan says with this, they expect that the samples will go out this week and they should receive the result in the next week or two.

Fiji now has 3 community cases of COVID-19.

There are 78 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.

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