![Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong. [Image: Fijian Government]](https://www.fijivillage.com/news_images/452748866608d05351698e92214529.jpg)
Two COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in isolation while an additional 25,064 Fijians were screened through the Health Ministry’s mobile screening teams and at screening clinics since Friday.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says after another 1026 tests, they have confirmed the two new cases.
They are the 5-year-old and the 15-year-old daughters of the mother from Cunningham.
Doctor Fong says both cases were confirmed in isolation, and their first tests were negative, which means they do not pose a risk to the public and bear no implication on the existing programme of contact tracing.
He says the entire family of the person in Cunningham who contracted COVID-19 has also contracted the virus - 7 household members in total.
The Permanent Secretary says let that be a lesson in how transmissible this variant is and how vital it is that measures are followed by everyone.
He says they generally prefer more targeted measures, and the ministry will be able to implement them once they have a handle on chains of transmission.
The Permanent Secretary says right now, a lockdown is a prescription that Suva and Nausori need.
He says there are 877 contacts of case 113, the garment factory worker, which are split between two factories -Lyndhurst and Mark One Apparel.
Doctor Fong says of the 877 total contacts, 833 have been screened and swabbed.
477 have tested negative with the remaining samples due to be tested.
He confirms that all primary contacts will be retested during their mandatory 14 days of quarantine, which begins from their last contact with the case.
More samples have been received from yesterday’s contact tracing.
Today, they will know whether or not the testing reveals that the lockdown will arrive at its scheduled conclusion at 4am Monday.
He also says their lockdown got off to a wet start last night, which did hinder the contact tracing and swabbing throughout Suva and Nausori, but they are rapidly making up that ground.
