Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong has confirmed there are six new positive cases to report as of 6 o’clock last night.

The first 2 cases are from Muanikoso in Nasinu and are primary contacts of other cases.

Doctor Fong says the next 4 cases tested positive while in quarantine and are primary contacts of one of the Extra Supermarket employee cases.

He had announced 18 cases at midday yesterday from Waila, Tacirua, Samabula and Muanikoso.

There are now 92 active cases in isolation.

Fiji has had 230 cases in total, with 134 recoveries and 4 deaths, since our first case was reported on March 19th 2020.

A total of 88,294 COVID-19 laboratory tests have been conducted since testing started in early 2020.

A total of 1,629 samples were tested on Saturday.

Earlier today:

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