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There 27 new COVID-19 cases with 1 case being a day patient at CWM Hospital.

Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the patient was not admitted at the hospital but was tested as part of a pre-admission screening program that is being conducted at the hospital.

Investigations are ongoing into the possible source of her infection.

14 of the new positive cases were announced as of 6 o’clock last night.

Doctor Fong says 13 of the new cases are contacts of previously announced cases.

9 of the new cases announced last night are from the Navy cluster, 3 are contacts of the Waila cluster and 1 case is a household contact of case 244 in the Muanikoso cluster.

Doctor Fong says 8 patients have recovered, which means there are now 127 active cases in isolation.

Fiji has had 286 cases in total, with 155 recoveries and 4 deaths, since the first case was reported on March 19th 2020.

96,111 COVID-19 laboratory tests have been conducted since testing started in early 2020.

This does not include the 11,000 samples recently tested in Australia.