{"id":802,"date":"2020-12-30T00:45:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T00:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=802"},"modified":"2020-12-30T00:45:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T00:45:32","slug":"three-new-border-cases-of-covid-19-reported-in-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Three new border cases of COVID-19 reported in Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>There are three new border cases of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Permanent Secretary for Health and Medical Services Dr James Fong confirms two patients \u2013 a 32-year-old male and a 32-year-old female \u2013 arrived from New Delhi, India on December 21st.<\/p>\n<p>A 34-year-old female who had travelled from England and arrived in Fiji from Hong Kong on December 21st.<\/p>\n<p>All three tested positive during routine testing while in quarantine in Nadi.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Fong says the new cases have been safely and hygienically transferred to the isolation ward at the Lautoka hospital according to the standard protocol for confirmed cases.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry they have all been asymptomatic and in good health since the transfer.<\/p>\n<p>The frontline border and quarantine staff who were directly involved with the cases have followed infection prevention and control protocols, and will be monitored and tested as necessary.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth individual who also arrived from Hong Kong on December 21ST, also tested positive during routine border quarantine testing.<\/p>\n<p>However, 31-year-old male had already tested positive on two occasions prior to arriving in Fiji, during his travels in France and the United Kingdom from October to December.<\/p>\n<p>He remains symptom free, and is considered a historical case that will not be counted as a case for Fiji, as he has already been counted as a case in another country.<\/p>\n<p>It is known that non-infectious pieces of the virus can remain detectable, and cause a positive test result, long after the infection has passed; therefore it is unlikely that this person is currently infectious.<\/p>\n<p>However, as a precaution, he has been transferred to the isolation ward at Lautoka hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Fiji has had 49 cases since our first case was detected on March 19th 2020, with the last 31 cases detected in border quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>It has now been 255 days since the last case was detected outside border quarantine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>-FBC TV<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three new border cases of COVID-19. Permanent Secretary for Health and Medical Services Dr James Fong confirms two patients \u2013 a 32-year-old male and a 32-year-old female \u2013 arrived from New Delhi, India on December 21st. A 34-year-old female who had travelled from England and arrived in Fiji from Hong Kong on December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-fiji-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}