People’s Alliance Leader Sitiveni Rabuka is calling on the Government to place the top priority on the lives of the people and take a risk-based approach that is driven by science and not on self-serving political and economic interests.
Rabuka says he believes that Fiji is now heading towards a third wave which will further worsen once the Omicron variant takes hold on the country.
He says the high transmissibility of Omicron resulted in about 110 countries having the variant within a month since it was first detected on November 24th in South Africa.
Rabuka says scientific data is now revealing that Omicron is more transmissible than the Delta variant and while it may be less severe, its ability to cause severe disease should not be underestimated.
He says given the warning by World Health Organization and Fiji being a vulnerable small island developing state, the highly infectious nature of Omicron carries the real danger of collapsing our already saturated and exhausted health care capacity.
The former Prime Minister is also requesting members of the public to be vigilant, co-operate with the health authorities, follow all COVID protocols, get vaccinated and boosted.
