Six new positive COVID-19 cases were announced last night.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says 4 cases are primary contacts within the Muanikoso cluster and 2 are from the Vunivivi cluster.
22 cases were announced after midday yesterday which includes 12 cases from Vunivivi Nausori, 7 Navy officers, 2 from Queen Elizabeth Barracks and 1 from Kinoya.
Investigations have revealed that the navy, Waila and Vunivivi clusters are connected through a common exposure event which was a funeral.
Doctor Fong says the resident of Kinoya has no links to other cases at this early stage of investigation.
He says the 2 new cases at the George Mate Medical Centre at Queen Elizabeth Barracks are connected to the QEB cluster.
Doctor Fong adds the 7 naval officers and staff are contacts of the first naval officer to test positive and are part of the navy cluster.
He also says 12 are residents of Vunivivi in Nausori.
They were found as part of screening of that area in connection with the navy cluster.
Doctor Fong says it is clear that the concentration of this outbreak is now in the Suva-Nausori area.
He says most of the new cases in recent days were discovered through contact tracing investigations for known cases, which is an indicator that the contact tracing efforts are effective.
The Permanent Secretary says significant escalations in daily case numbers have been largely driven by the fact that recent cases have been linked to large households or workplace groups, funeral gatherings and the associated grog sessions in big groups.
4 patients have recovered, which means there are now 151 active cases in isolation, with all active cases within Suva-Nausori.
There have been 244 cases during this current outbreak, and Fiji has had 314 cases in total, with 159 recoveries and 4 deaths, since the first case was reported on March 19th 2020.
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