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- Dr Fong says the new case is from Kalokalo in Makoi.
- The Makoi Centre is closed for now.
- FEMAT Field Hospital is to take the strain off Lautoka Hospital which is a COVID-19 Care Facility.
A woman from Kalokalo, Makoi is the new COVID-19 case in Fiji after another 1380 tests.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the woman presented to the Makoi Health Centre yesterday with COVID symptoms.
He says at this very early stage in the investigation, no link has been established between this case and others.
They will be treating this as another case of community transmission until proven otherwise.
Doctor Fong says the contact tracing, testing and isolation protocols are currently activated and the centre is closed for now.
He says due to the steadily rising number of cases across Viti Levu, the borders of all six containment areas, Lautoka, Nadi, Rakiraki, Lami, Suva and Nausori, are being maintained.
The Permanent Secretary says the confirmation of cases of unknown origin, in particular, indicates the virus could still be present in all six areas, so the borders must be enforced, as must the other restrictions they have in place.
He says when the data tells them to proceed in a different direction, they will tell you.
Doctor Fong says movement across Viti Levu is currently restricted for essential purposes only.
He says the purpose of limiting movement is to limit mixing between people.
The Permanent Secretary also says they are dealing with a highly transmissible variant and several unknown chains of transmission, so they want people to operate in bubbles and stay in their bubbles as much as possible.
He says if the virus stays within one person, and that person does not mix with other people, the virus eventually dies, because it has no new hosts to infect.
