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Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong has confirmed there are 28 new cases as of 6pm tonight and 5 of these cases are under investigation.
23 of the new cases are linked to the existing clusters.
Doctor Fong says 2 new cases are from the Nawaka, Nadi cluster, 1 from the CWM Hospital cluster, 4 from the FICAC cluster and 16 from the Navy cluster.
Doctor Fong says 3 are close contacts of a case under investigation from Caubati announced yesterday, 1 is under investigation with no known links to other cases at this stage, and 1 case from Navosai, Narere was tested after presenting to Valelevu Health Centre with symptoms. The investigation is ongoing into any links between the Narere case and other cases.
The Permanent Secretary for Health says current investigations into the situation at CWM Hospital indicate that so far the transmission was limited to specific areas of the hospital and this has allowed them to maintain services such as maternity and paediatrics, where the testing revealed no positive cases.
He says corridors to the affected areas have been closed.
Doctor Fong says the FEMAT teams will set up field units at the Vodafone Arena and FMF Gymnasium to provide services that will complement the services they can currently provide at the CWM facility.
2 patients have recovered, which means there are now 349 active cases in isolation. There have been 466 cases during the current outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded a total of 536 cases in Fiji since the first case in March 2020, with 183 recoveries and 4 deaths.
