WHO ASSESS FIJI AS 100 PER CENT COMPLIANT

Fiji has been assessed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as having 100 per cent compliance of the highest calibre of COVID-19 testing.

Minister for Health and Medical Services Dr

Ifereimi Waqainabete said the assessment was carried out last week and the result reflected the rigid and stringent forms of testing that Fiji conducts.

“If we say that somebody is COVID-19 negative, they are truly negative and if we say they are positive they are truly positive because we align ourselves to that type of testing,” Dr Waqainabete said.

He said the ministry was working with development partners such as WHO to also set up Fiji Centre of Disease Control labs in

Nadi and at the Lautoka Hospitals.

“We have reviewed our data, looked at what’s happened in Fiji and we have reason to believe that technically we did not have community transmission,” he said.

“Because community transmission means that there is no link between a case in the community and where it could have come from. All our 32 cases, we know where they come from and so when we look at that, we are quite pleased at our effective containment efforts and also the support of partners that have enabled us to achieve what we have,” he said.

Dr Waqainabete congratulated the front line workers for their hard work. He stated that so far, Fiji had screened more than 10,000 people which make up one per cent of Fiji’s population.

He also mentioned that there were 69 early warning sites set up throughout the country to tend to influenza like illnesses.