Bula Vinaka. Following the screening of another 16,613  Fijians and another 1018 tests yesterday, we have one new case of COVID-19 to report. I will get to the details of that patient shortly. Before I do,  we have some urgent developments to cover that require immediate changes to our containment strategy. Our contact tracing stemming…Read More

Bula Vinaka. We’ve started this announcement a bit late today. As I’ve mentioned before, we test for the virus non-stop, 24/7. Positive cases don’t always come about at convenient times. Today we’ve had some late developments that have brought about important changes to our strategy, and we’ve spent the afternoon ensuring we can communicate those…Read More

Bula Vinaka. I’ll start today with better news –– we’ve added some invaluable new tools to our arsenal that will help us expand, and quicken, our COVID-19 laboratory testing. As of 9:00 this morning, we have received four new GeneXpert machines, which together have the capacity to run 384 extra COVID-19 tests in 24 hours. Combining…Read More

Bula vinaka, and good afternoon. We have received confirmation from the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit (MDU) at the Peter Doherty Institute in Melbourne that recent cases of COVID-19 are of the B1617 variant that was first detected in India. As I mentioned yesterday, our contact tracing investigations meant that we already strongly suspected that this was…Read More

Bula Vinaka Fiji, This is the second day of our new lock down conditions in the Containment areas of Nadi-Lautoka and Lami-Suva-Nausori. In this update, we will announce more positive cases, however we are now able to confirm that, contrary to what we feared yesterday, we do not have a new cluster nor do we have…Read More