{"id":763,"date":"2020-12-22T04:08:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T04:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=763"},"modified":"2020-12-22T04:08:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T04:08:39","slug":"all-inbound-passenger-flights-to-fiji-scheduled-between-thursday-to-next-monday-have-been-ceased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"All inbound passenger flights to Fiji scheduled between Thursday to next Monday have been ceased."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>All inbound passenger flights to Fiji scheduled between Thursday to next Monday have been ceased.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This has been announced by the COVID-19 Risk Mitigation Taskforce, following<\/p>\n<p>With a new variant of coronavirus in the UK, a number of nations have started imposing travel bans.<\/p>\n<p>The new strain is more transmissible but there is no evidence it is more deadly.<\/p>\n<p>The Fijian Ministry of Health and Medical Services will use this period to conduct an extensive review of its border quarantine processes.<\/p>\n<p>The situation will be reviewed during this period and may be extended.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Ministry says while our current border quarantine protocols have been effective in maintaining Fiji\u2019s COVID-Contained status for 246 days now, if this new strain of the virus is easier to transmit, it could potentially pose an increased risk of inflight transmission to other passengers.<\/p>\n<p>The review will assess what steps Fiji may need to take to proactively mitigate any increased risk from this newly-discovered strain.<\/p>\n<p>Exemptions may be made by the Permanent Secretary for Health for inbound travellers from countries other than those affected by this potentially contagious strain of the novel Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Several repatriation flights have been approved to land up to 24th December.<\/p>\n<p>Any traveller on-board these flights coming from the UK, as well as passengers deemed as travelling contacts of UK-based travellers, will be identified and quarantined separately.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry has already introduced heightened transmission precautionary measures with regards to personal protective equipment used by all border frontline workers from Monday, 21st December.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports say several European countries and Australia have detected the new, faster-spreading strain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-FBC<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"news-article-poll\">\n<div class=\"bootstrap-yop yop-poll-mc\">\n<div class=\"basic-yop-poll-container\" data-id=\"3\" data-temp=\"basic\" data-skin=\"minimal\" data-cscheme=\"black\" data-cap=\"0\" data-access=\"guest\" data-tid=\"\" data-uid=\"be461b07194c90f4b2fe2ad1bf792ba3\" data-resdet=\"percentages\" data-show-results-to=\"\" data-show-results-moment=\"never\" data-show-results-only=\"false\" data-show-message=\"true\" data-show-results-as=\"bar\" data-sort-results-by=\"as-defined\" data-sort-results-rule=\"asc\" data-gdpr=\"no\" data-gdpr-sol=\"consent\" data-css=\".news-article-poll h5 {\n    text-transform: none !important;\n}\n\n.basic-vote {\n    text-align: center;\n}\" data-counter=\"0\" data-load-with=\"1\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"basic-inner\">\n<form class=\"basic-form\">\n<div class=\"basic-elements\">\n<div class=\"basic-element basic-question basic-question-text-columns\" data-id=\"5\" data-uid=\"aa96059aa62c1ea35d625fd4817a2506\" data-type=\"question\" data-question-type=\"text\" data-min=\"1\" data-max=\"1\" data-display=\"columns\" data-colnum=\"3\" data-display-others=\"no\" data-others-color=\"\" data-others=\"\">\n<div class=\"basic-question-title\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All inbound passenger flights to Fiji scheduled between Thursday to next Monday have been ceased. 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