Fiji has recorded three new border quarantine cases of COVID-19.
The country’s Ministry of Health and Medical Services made the announcement via a Government statement last night.
The first two cases include a 69-year-old and 39-year-old woman who travelled to Fiji from California in the USA, arriving on flight FJ1813 from Los Angeles on March 1.
The ministry stated that both women currently had no symptoms.
“One of the individuals had returned a weak positive result and is considered a historical case. Both have been transferred to the isolation ward at Lautoka hospital according to the standard protocol for positive cases,” the ministry stated.
The third border quarantine case is a 44-year-old man who arrived in Fiji on a yacht on March 6, and his last port of call was Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
The man returned a weak positive test result upon routine testing, while undergoing the standard 14-day quarantine onboard the vessel in the quarantine mooring.
Fact-file:
- Fiji has now had 66 cases since the first case was reported on March 19, 2020;
- As at March 8, 2021:
- There are 7 cases admitted at the Lautoka hospital isolation ward; there have been 57 recoveries and two deaths;
- The last 48 cases have been international travel-associated cases detected in border quarantine;
- It has been 324 days since the last case was detected outside border quarantine on April 18, 2020;
- A total of 32,164 laboratory tests have been conducted, with a daily average of 239 tests a day over the last 7 days, and a weekly average of 1476 tests a week over the last two weeks.
Source: Ministry of Health and Medical Services
