A new confined area within Lautoka has been identified and cordoned off this morning.

RB Patel supermarkets Fiji wide are now reducing their operating hours.

An employee of Jade Salon in MHCC is now in self-isolation at his Nakasi home after coming into close contact with Fiji’s sixth confirmed COVID-19 patient.

Fiji is gearing up to face two crisis at once says Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama.

Twenty-eight police officers are currently in self-isolation in Vanua Levu.

The Police Commissioner Brigadier General Sitiveni Qiliho says they cannot position officers at every inch of the ground.

Fiji now has 14 confirmed cases of COVID-19 after two more people have tested positive.

The government will be announcing a new confined area within Lautoka tomorrow.

130 people had to be tracked down by COVID-19 contact teams in the Northern Division due to the movement of patient nine, a 54-year-old from Labasa.

Health Minister Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete says the 2 new cases have a very low chance of having infected others.

Labasa College has been identified as one of the potential isolation facility for government in containing the spread of COVID-19 in the country.

Within 24 hours, the Fiji Centre for Disease Control undertook 23 COVID-19 tests of which two came back positive.