- Doctor Fong says they have no new cases of COVID-19 in Fiji to confirm today.
- This has been confirmed after another 2,206 tests.
- There are currently 37 active COVID-19 cases in the country.
- None of them have severe illness.
- Dr Fong says their contact tracers have spent the last 24 hrs working on the travel history of the 7 cases announced yesterday.
- 15 contacts of the nurse from the Raiwaqa Health Centre have been identified through the careFIJI app.
- Dr Fong says this is yet another reminder that the careFIJI app works.
- As a result of the contact tracing investigation for case 128, the Ministry is asking anyone who attended the Maternal and Child Health Clinic at Raiwaqa Health Centre from April 21st to April 23rd, April 29th to April 30th and May 3rd to May 5th to remain at home and contact 158.
- Dr Fong says they know that rest of the staff at the Raiwaqa Health Centre have tested negative so far and the nurse was wearing a mask at work but those that attended that clinic should still call 158.
- There maybe a need to cordon off certain neighbourhoods and communities as screening zones but so far their testing has not pushed any specific areas past the risk threshold to trigger a lockdown.
- Dr Fong is disappointed that they have already seen people moving from containment zones into non-containment zones.
- This was explicitly forbidden and they are already tracking these people as best as they can.
- It is vital that all these people self-isolate immediately - Dr Fong.
- Of the 37 COVID-19 cases in isolation facilities, 8 are border quarantine cases and 23 are locally transmitted cases.
- 12 patients have recovered.
- 6 cases of COVID-19 are still under investigation to determine the source of transmission