SUVA, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Fiji reported on Monday one more COVID-19 cases, bringing the current number of active COVID-19 cases to nine in the island nation since July 6 this year.
Fiji's Acting Permanent Secretary for the Health Ministry James Fong said on Monday that the new case is a 50-year old woman, who is the wife of one of the earlier announced border quarantine cases from the same repatriation flight carrying 107 passengers from India on July 1 this year.
After her husband tested positive, they were both moved from the Fijian government designated quarantine facility to the isolation facility at the hospital in Lautoka, the second largest city in the island nation, Fong said, adding that she had tested negative on the first round of testing conducted for all passengers, but tested positive during the second round of testing.
According to Fong, all the passengers on the flight were kept under strict border quarantine conditions when they arrived in Fiji's third largest city of Nadi, including completing 14 days quarantine in the Fijian government-designated quarantine facilities, where they are supervised by the Fijian military and screened daily for symptoms by staff from the Ministry of Health. They were cleared and released at the end of the 14-day quarantine period.
Fong stressed that as long as Fiji's border quarantine and infection prevention control protocols are upheld, there is no risk to the Fijian public from border quarantine cases.
Currently, Fiji still maintains a nationwide curfew from March 30 this year. Enditem
