SUVA, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Fiji on Friday reported one new imported COVID-19 case, who is a 56-year-old female travelling to Fiji from the United States.
According to a statement by Fiji's Health Ministry, the woman, who departed from Sacramento, California, arrived in Fiji's third largest city of Nadi on flight FJ1811 from Los Angeles on March 25 this year.
The woman showed a weak positive test result during routine testing while undergoing the 14-day quarantine in Nadi. She has since been transferred to the isolation ward at Lautoka hospital, about 24 km north of Nadi.
Fiji has had 68 cases in total, with two active cases, 64 recoveries and two deaths since its first case was recorded on March 19 last year. The last 50 cases have been international travel associated cases detected in border quarantine.
Currently, a total of 40,300 COVID-19 lab tests have been conducted, with a daily average of 262 tests per day over the last seven days.
There are now 872 people who have recently arrived from overseas undergoing the mandatory 14-day quarantine in the Fijian government supervised border quarantine facilities.
Fiji still maintains a strict travel restriction to date for foreign visitors alongside a nationwide curfew effective from March 30 last year. Enditem
