Covid 19 coronavirus: Seven new community cases detected as Fiji prepares for worst in outbreak
7 May, 2021 07:51 AM
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NZ epidemiologist Michael Baker says Fiji’s outbreak will put its healthcare system to the test. Video / FBC News
NZ epidemiologist Michael Baker says Fiji’s outbreak will put its healthcare system to the test. Video / FBC News
RNZ
Fiji s Government is preparing for a worst-case scenario as it deploys a multi-agency response to the country s worrying Covid-19 outbreak.
This week Fiji recorded its third Covid-19 death while health authorities scrambled to find the source of undetected transmission on the main island Viti Levu.
One of Fiji s latest Covid-19 cases has succumbed to the deadly virus.
The Health Ministry said the 53-year-old man, who was confirmed as case 125 on Wednesday night, died in Lautoka on Viti Levu.
Originally admitted to Lautoka Hospital for surgery, the man is also suspected of being the source of transmission for two earlier Covid-19 infections.
The Health Ministry says cases 120 and 121, both doctors from the hospital, had treated the man.
Lautoka Hospital, with more than 400 staff and patients, has since been closed off by the military and police.
Lautoka Hospital.
Photo: Supplied/Fiji MOH
Fiji now has had 125 cases of Covid-19, 50 active cases, and three deaths since its first case in March last year.
Apr 25, 2021 06:06:47 PM Three containment zones have been announced for the Central Division and the greater public will not be allowed in or out of these areas for the next 14 days beginning from 4am Monday. Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Dr James Fong said because we cannot yet pin down the movements of the four latest COVID-19 patients and identify all their contacts, they are forced to take strict precautionary measures against the possibility that the virus has spread within the Lami- Suva Nausori areas and within the Nadi-Lautoka area. The Lami containment zone runs from Wainadoi to Tamavua-I- Wai Bridge.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Fiji carries out mass screening amid superspreader fears
20 Apr, 2021 11:54 PM
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Red Cross volunteer Taraivini Kabuta shares information about Covid-19 transmission with a family in Uciwai Settlement, Nadi. Photo / Fiji Red Cross
Red Cross volunteer Taraivini Kabuta shares information about Covid-19 transmission with a family in Uciwai Settlement, Nadi. Photo / Fiji Red Cross
RNZ
By Lice Movono of RNZ
Massive house-to-house screening in Fiji s western towns is being rolled out amid fears hundreds of people may have picked up Covid-19 at a funeral.
Health authorities have described the weekend rites attended by more than 500 people as a potential superspreader event.