The Border Health Protection Unit has been established in the CAAF compound in Namaka, Nadi, and this facility will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing quarantine operations.

Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong says the Ministry in preparation for easing of restrictions has remodelled health service provision.

The function of the Border Health Protection Unit will be supplemented by a container laboratory that is situated in close proximity.

Dr. Fong says the Ministry of Health Communication team together with their multi-agency community engagement team are working with community leaders to identify and strengthen mechanisms that will facilitate the monitoring of vulnerable persons and persons with COVID like symptoms and encourage them towards timely engagement of health care services so that medical teams have a greater opportunity to provide timely treatment.

He says the potential for transmission in any community will be slower, and the ability to contain the outbreak better when they achieve a high vaccination rate and also maintain strict adherence to COVID safe measures.

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30/09/2021 21:26