Other civil servants providing supporting roles to Health Ministry
They are not doing medical frontline work – Dr Fong
Other civil servants providing supporting roles to Health Ministry
They are not doing medical frontline work – Dr Fong
Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong
Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong says other civil servants will not be doing medical frontline work and they will only provide supporting roles.
He says some civil servants have been brought in to help providing food to those doing contact tracing and some are helping drive vehicles.
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7 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases confirmed
Several of Suva s hotels and motels to be used as quarantine centres
7 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases confirmed
Several of Suva s hotels and motels to be used as quarantine centres
Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong
7 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases have been confirmed and the Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the recent cases from Lautoka and Suva are troubling as they point to wider transmission in these areas.
The first case is a 30-year-old woman from Field 40 Lautoka who presented to the Kamikamica Health Centre with severe COVID-19 symptoms. She had been sick for three weeks.
Raiwaqa Health Centre closes after nurse tests positive for COVID-19
4 new COVID-19 cases announced tonight - 1 border quarantine case, 3 locally transmitted cases
Raiwaqa Health Centre closes after nurse tests positive for COVID-19
4 new COVID-19 cases announced tonight - 1 border quarantine case, 3 locally transmitted cases
Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong
Four new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed – three are locally transmitted cases while there is one border quarantine case.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the first case is another border quarantine case that had travelled with a border quarantine case announced earlier. One is a 47-year-old nurse at the Raiwaqa Health Centre.
Urgent steps taken to prevent more of our health facilities from becoming source points of new COVID outbreaks – Dr Fong
Urgent steps taken to prevent more of our health facilities from becoming source points of new COVID outbreaks – Dr Fong
Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong
Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong says following the worrying spate of cases among our healthcare workers, they are taking urgent steps to prevent more of our health facilities from becoming source points of new COVID outbreaks.
Doctor Fong says their longstanding protocol has been to screen all incoming patients for COVID-19 symptoms and test if necessary at admission. He says this will be strengthened.
It will be too late to prevent a great deal of human suffering if ICUs become stressed with high numbers of COVID patients – Dr Fong
It will be too late to prevent a great deal of human suffering if ICUs become stressed with high numbers of COVID patients – Dr Fong
Testing for COVID-19
Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong says if the ICUs become stressed with high numbers of COVID-positive patients, they will be hard-pressed, like other countries with high rates of infection, to fully treat people who need critical care, and it will be too late to prevent a great deal of human suffering.