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Fiji recorded 35 new COVID-19 cases yesterday which includes 3 cases from the Ministry of Health Headquarters COVID-19 Incident Management Team and 11 cases from the Management Team’s warehouse in Lami.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says 1 is a case from the Navy cluster that was reported last night while the remaining 34 new cases were recorded today.
10 cases are from the CWM Hospital cluster, 5 cases from the Navosai cluster, another 2 cases from the Navy cluster, and 1 case from the Nadali cluster.
Doctor Fong says there are 2 new cases from Navosai and Tamavua under investigation to determine any links to other cases.
The 3 cases from the Ministry of Health’s Headquarters COVID-19 Incident Management Team were picked up as a result of a program of routine swabbing of the health staff.
Doctor Fong says more than 80 staff at the Ministry of Health’s Headquarters at Dinem House were swabbed, with all but the 3 returning negative results.
He says the staff identified as primary contacts of the 3 cases will quarantine for 14 days while secondary contacts, who are contacts of the primary contacts, will self-quarantine at home for at least 4 days, awaiting results of day 4 swabs of the primary contacts.
6 patients have recovered, which means there are now 378 active cases in isolation. There have been 501 cases during the current outbreak that started in April 2021. Fiji has recorded a total of 571 cases in Fiji since the first case in March 2020, with 189 recoveries and 4 deaths.
