There are 10 new cases of COVID-19 with three infections at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Nabua and one being a Navy officer who is not linked to any of the existing cases as yet.

Nine are contacts of earlier announced cases and were identified through ongoing contact tracing and screening investigations.

Apart from QEB, there are three more persons positive from Muanikoso, Nasinu, which is becoming an area of major concern. The others include one each from Tacirua, Kinoya and Navosai, Narere.

Health Permanent Secretary, Doctor James Fong, says the member of Fiji Navy is from Tacirua and presented to the Nuffield Health Centre in Tamavua with symptoms.
Here he was swabbed and tested positive. The man is yet to be linked to any existing cluster or case.

He says this case came about through their community surveillance programme, which includes swabbing of people who present themselves with symptoms to screening clinics or health centres.

Doctor Fong says depending on what their investigations unravel about this case, the Ministry may recommend extensions of health protection measures.

Residents in the greater Nasinu and Nausori turned out in numbers to get their first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. [Source: Fijian Government]

There are now 109 active cases in isolation, with the total cases in Fiji since our first case in March 2020 now at 248.

There have been 135 recoveries and four deaths.

Health officials have now conducted 585,709 screenings and 27,026 swabs through the community mobile screening program, in addition to screenings at health facilities and fixed screening clinics and the contact-tracing screenings conducted for positive cases.

Residents in the greater Nasinu and Nausori areas turned out in numbers to get their first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. [Source: Fijian Government]