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THE INDO-FIJIAN BUSINESSMAN Covid SUPERSPREADER: He allegedly obtained a false certification in India of being COVID free and travelled back to Fiji via Singapore. Local Fiji Gujarati businessmen afraid of him

27/4/2021

* The Indo-Fijian businessman apparently travelled to India to see his brother who had flown from Fiji earlier as he was very ill.
* The brother had contracted Covid in India and passed away while the businessman was there.
* The businessman managed to influence (allegedly bribed) the Indian officials and then took his brother’s corpse to Jam Raval, a small town around 4 hours away from Gujarat to cremate him.
* In the process the businessman and others that helped him got infected with the Indian variant Covid 19.
* He obtained false certification of being COVID free and travelled back to Fiji
via Singapore

JAM RAVAL, the small town four miles outside Gujarat

Fijileaks has been reliably informed that the Indo-Fijian businessman suspected of being the COVID superspreader operates a business in Nadi and also Ba and Nausori.

He apparently travelled to India to see his brother who had flown from Fiji earlier as he was very ill. The brother had contracted Covid in India and passed away while the businessman was there.

In India, strict protocols is in place to cremate the body within 2 hours of demise in the clothes that the deceased was wearing at the moment of death.

No one can take the deceased corpse outside the township where they pass away. The businessman managed to influence (allegedly bribed) the Indian officials and then took his brother’s corpse to Jam Raval, a small town around 4 hours away from Gujarat to cremate him.

In the process the businessman and others that helped him got infected with the Indian variant Covid 19.

He obtained false certification of being COVID free and travelled back to Fiji via Singapore.

He has now caused the massive issues in Fiji! The business community (Gujaratis) know this story and are afraid of this businessman as the same family was allegedly involved in a horrific murder in Nadi some years ago where one of the family was imprisoned.

Fijileaks: We urge the authorities to fully investigate this businessman, check and verify through the Indian Embassy the Covid test certificate he produced before travelling to Fiji.

COME OUT OF YOUR RAT HOLE HIDINGS AND TELL FIJI THE TRUTH: Khaiyum-Bainimarama disappearing act reinforces our claims that Fiji Airways Flight from Singapore carrying Khaiyum spread 'INDIA VIRUS'

27/4/2021

India was once seen as a success story in beating the pandemic but Prime Minister Modi now stands accused of cover-ups and dismal failure

* KHAIYUM had been draining $37million a month out of Fiji to keep Fiji Airways afloat, for he knew damn well he would be needing major operation in Singapore because Fijian hospitals have been run to the ground, and even standby generators don't work

* Fiji Airways must release the names of all passengers on 10 April flight

COVID AND MEDIA SCEPTICS: Sadly, when we need the Fiji Media to play its part in containing "Khaiyum's INDIA VIRUS', Fijians of all races are relying on SOCIAL MEDIA, for too long many media outlets were nothing but Aiyaz Khaiyum's propaganda arm. FIJI Paying The Price!

FITNESS NOTE ON KHAIYUM:
Bainimarama MUST convene an independent Medical Board to certify whether or not Aiyaz Khaiyum is physically and mentally fit and competent to resume his Ministerial duties and functions. This is particularly so because his medical treatment in Singapore was privately arranged as he claimed in a previous media release, and that he was meeting all expenses personally.
Bainimarama and and his FijiFirst government must learn from its recent failure and negligence to make an acting appointment prior to Khaiyum's departure overseas for medical treatment, hence in the interest of good governance, transparency and accountability, a Medical Board should be properly constituted to clear Khaiyum's fitness and competence to resume official duties. No Indian doctors to certify his FITNESS.

COVID CARD TO BAINIMARAMA: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FOR TURNING 67. No birthday greetings on Fiji Government Facebook. Even lackey RFMF soldiers, sailors, policemen in hiding - normally at his house on 27 April

27/4/2021

FEEDING THE MINISTER FOR ELECTIONS:
Pharmacist KAVITA RANIGA, FFP donor and Fiji Electoral Commissioner, refuses to admit or deny that she had been taking home prepared
FOOD to Aiyaz Khaiyum while he was in hotel quarantine as Madras High Court in India rules the India Election Commission is responsible for COVID surge, and must face MURDER charges. "You have not taken measures against political parties holding rallies despite every order of this court saying ‘maintain Covid protocol, maintain Covid protocol’ like a broken record,' " Madras High Court ruled. As Immigration Minister, Bainimarama must explain why he allowed the FFP donor Indo-Fijian businessmen to keep travelling to INDIA?

In this aerial picture taken on April 26, burning pyres of victims who lost their lives due to the Covid-19 coronavirus are seen at a cremation ground in New Delhi, INDIA

COVID SPOILS BAINIMARAMA'S BIRTHDAY BASH IN 2021 AND SPARES FIJI THE UNADULATING PRAISE IN 2019

HIDING COVID FACTS IN COLOSTOMY BAG? Dr James Fong's fumbling facts and figures about true picture of COVID sweeping Fiji means - HE - reknowned Gynaecologist, must be replaced by qualified Epidemiologist

26/4/2021

Fijileaks: Like George Speight and his storm troopers, AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM and other returning travellers should have been locked up on NUKULAU ISLAND, to make sure COVID didn't spread on the mainland

HOW come the Ministry of Health did not know the Makoi woman's husband is a soldier who works in quarantine? Moreover, when the 1st Soldier was found to be positive, why didn't contract tracing pick up the 2nd Soldier. They were roommates. What about the allegations from one of the quarantined travellers who claimed that soldiers in the next room guarding him were bonking women they had smuggled into hotel room?

TEMPORARY CLOSURE: SHUT DOWN INDIAN HIGH COMMISSION IN FIJI AND ROUND UP AND RE-TEST ALL THOSE WHO VISITED INDIA AND SINGAPORE. THEY MUST BE THE CODVID SUPERPREADERS IN FIJI

MASK UP! But where is the Minister for Health who has been ABSENT throughout Covid crisis? Who is superspreader(s)? If it was brought by travellers from India, FIJI is doomed. Indian Covid is SUPERSPREADER

25/4/2021

VIRUS FROM INDIA
"The soldier caught it after coming into contact with a couple who had returned from India and were positive."
Dr James Fong

FROM INDIA WITH HELL:
* We should never have allowed Indo-Fijian businessmen, mostly FFP donors, to travel to Covid infected INDIA in the first instance.
* We must not blame the soldier nor the poor hotel maid.
* BLAME greedy businessmen visting 'Mother India' and returning to Fiji to spread COVID

People will not be allowed to leave the country for business trips for the time being.

This is after concerns were raised that the person who the soldier got COVID-19 from had recently returned from a business trip from India.

When questioned if Fiji will limit business trips or not, the Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong has confirmed that at the moment people will only be allowed to travel for medical reasons.

Dr Fong says there are some outgoing flights that are granted on a case by case basis especially those who are going for medical treatment.

He has also confirmed that they have put some countries such as India on red zone.

Dr Fong says the only people they are not refusing are Fijians who are returning however they are currently being affected because the Ministry is reducing the number of flights coming in due to the outbreak. Source: FijiVillage News

VULNERABLE TO COVID: Aiyaz Khaiyum should be SHIELDING! It looks like vulnerable Bainimarama has already gone into hiding from COVID. We thought exemption allows for quarantine passengers to return HOME? And, not to roam inside Government Ministries?

VACCINATION STARTS AT HOME but India was playing Vaccine Diplomacy with China, shipping vaccines to FIJI and other countries

FFP led the way in not adhering to their own Covid rules. Pity, those Indian Policemen were not in Fiji to WHACK these breakers with lathis:

COVID, CONFIDENTIALITY, AND CHILD PROTECTION: Fijileaks totally agrees with the anger and frustration expressed by PS Health, Dr James FONG, over revelation - re identity of 14-year-old student on social media

22/4/2021

Emotional plea from Dr Fong after circulation of confidential email about 14-yr-old COVID-19 patient:
"The Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong says he is really disappointed and wished people had more sense and be a little more caring after a confidential email showing the name of one of Fiji’s latest COVID-19 patients was being circulated today. He is calling on people to stop sharing that email if they receive it. Doctor Fong says people need to be more sensitive and that email could have been easily written and sent without the 14-year-old girl’s name. Doctor Fong says people should show love." Fijivillage News, 22 April 2021

Fijileaks: We have blurred the name of the 14-year-old student from this original post that appeared on the New Zealand based lawyer
RAJENDRA CHAUDHRY'S Facebook page and was widely
re-circulated by other social media users. We had refrained from reproducing it, mindful of the harm to the 14-year-old Covid student
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 8, protects children's right to preserve their identity, including their nationality, name and family relations, without unlawful interference.

Head of School suspended after sending confidential email about COVID-19 patient

The Head of School who sent a confidential email stating the name of one of Fiji’s latest COVID-19 patients has been suspended from duties until further notice.

This has been confirmed by Education Minister Rosy Akbar who says she is disappointed towards the way the Head of School handled the COVID-19 reporting and communication protocol today.

She says it is rather unfortunate that the details of the student had been released and is now circulating on social media.

Akbar is asking all school heads and teachers to exercise confidentiality when dealing with issues related to Child Safety and Protection.

GROG-DOPED FFP GOVERNMENT WAKES UP TO REALITY OF COVID

21/4/2021

COVID AND COCONUT BILO MASK
WHILE Fijians were grog-doping on bilos of kava, Indonesians were protecting themselves from Covid

"Shah says during these tough times when everyone is losing out on income, it will be difficult for bus companies to send two buses for a single trip and passengers need to wait for other buses if they see that a bus is getting full."

WHERE IS MR FIT, AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM? He was FIT enough to hold the virtual budget consultation session on 28 February from Singapore and held another zoom meeting reportedly from his Fiji quarantine hotel

21/4/2021

WANTED:

The FFP Bainimarama-Khaiyum government created a false sense of security and complacency among Fijians of all races about Covid and Fiji. And NFP, playing their obscene Indo-Fijian communal card, wanted Government to keep open mosques and mandirs in time of COVID. Deport them to Mecca and Mumbai

Now, wanting Fijians to be HEROES to Fight COVID

Why YOU never wore a MASK UNTIL COVID HIT FIJI NOW?:

STATEMENT FROM THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH ON COVID-19

As announced by the Permanent Secretary for Health and Medical Services today, we have 1 new case of COVID-19.

This is a 40 year old female from Wainitarawau Settlement Cunningham in Suva who attended the funeral in Tavakubu Lautoka on Friday, April 16 and had contact with the 53 year old hotel quarantine worker case announced earlier. Along with 6 other members of her family she has been admitted to the isolation ward at Navua Hospital. These 6 family members have so far tested negative.

With this latest case, there are now 11 active cases admitted into hospital isolation units, five are older border quarantine cases announced previously. The remaining six are the cases reported since Sunday, April 18, which includes 3 border quarantine cases and 3 locally transmitted cases.

Total active cases in hospital isolation units = 11 (8 border quarantine cases and 3 locally transmitted cases)
There are also over 300 primary and secondary contacts of recent cases quarantined in border quarantine facilities in Nadi.

Fiji has had 78 cases in total, with 65 recoveries and 2 deaths, since our first case was reported on March 19, 2020. 57 of these cases have been international travel associated cases detected in border quarantine. And 3 recently announced cases – the quarantine hotel worker, her daughter, and now this 40 year old contact in Suva, are our first cases of local transmission in over 1 year.

A total of 43,487 COVID-19 laboratory tests have been conducted, with a daily average of 252 tests per day over the last 7 days, and a weekly average of 1892 tests per week over the last 2 weeks.

There are currently 1043 people who have recently arrived from overseas undergoing mandatory 14 day quarantine in government supervised border quarantine facilities in Nadi.

COVID HAVING THE LAST LAUGH IN KHAIYUM-BAINIMARAMA'S FIJI: The two, desperate to salvage the economy and to join Travel BUBBLE, presented Fiji as COVID-FREE. Holy Cow, allowing 500 to attend Funeral

20/4/2021

"More than 500 people attended the funeral at Tavakubu, Lautoka. Any person that attended this FUNERAL are now regarded as a "HIGH-RISK"
Dr James Fong, Permanent Secretary, Fiji Ministry of Health

SNEEZING WITHOUT MASKS SPREADS CORONAVIRUS:

Fijileaks: A mini bus left Lautoka and reached Nadi at 12.30am. What happened to CURFEW? What was the Covid infected SOLDIER doing in the Indo-Fijian couple's quarantine room? We understand the soldier had also handled the bags of the Indo-Fijian couple. Why were these bloody Indo-Fijians allowed to travel to COVID-INFECTED "MOTHER INDIA"? One businessman and wife went to buy cheap, rubbish, jewellery from India

Fijileaks: As parts of Fiji in LOCKDOWN, Where is AIYAZ KHAIYUM? There are widespread rumours circulating in Fiji and abroad that Khaiyum has been transferred to a hospital in India after developing complications following two major surgeries in Singapore. TRUTH?

TOTAL NONSENSE FROM NFP: Neither Lord Rama nor Allah will keep HINDUS and MUSLIMS in Fiji safe from CORONAVIRUS. Totally crammed and confined indoor spaces are breeding ground for COVID. If these leaders insist on opening up religious institutions, they should be sent packing to MECCA and MUMBAI on first available flight. We have not seen the Opposition nor Government MPs observing Covid rules

COVID HAS THE LAST LAUGH ON FRANK BAINIMARAMA'S FIJI: We had been warning HIM and his side-kick Aiyaz Khaiyum (where is he) to stop boasting that Fiji was COVID-FREE and follow the WHO COVID RULES

19/4/2021

LOCKDOWN FIJI: "Our positive patient is a 53-year-old woman working as a maid in the quarantine facility. The woman is a daytime worker and she resides in Nadi. It has been revealed that she had symptoms on Thursday, and authorities were not notified. That means she was contagious when she was at work on Thursday and later on Friday and Saturday when she traveled through the Lautoka and Nadi areas. Perhaps most worryingly, she attended a funeral in Tavakubu Lautoka on Friday and Saturday, traveling alongside other passengers by minivan...." Frank Bainimarama announcing localised lockdown. We wonder how many other Fijians have failed to notify authorities of Covid-like symptons?

"Masks have gathered dust tucked away in drawers" - Bainimarama

"The success Fiji has enjoyed - 365 days of COVID-containment, has made all of us far too comfortable with the pandemic that continued to rage beyond our shores. Social distancing has been ignored, masks have gathered dust tucked away in drawers, and businesses went back to operating as usual. The healthy habits that we learned 12 months ago were all but forgotten." Bainimarama reminding Fiji yesterday; he forgot to mention that a FFP donor businessman threw a $50,000 birthday bash for his wife's 50th birthday at GPH with no social distancing etc, etc, etc

BOASTING RATHER THAN BOLSTERING COVID DEFENCES: We never saw him wearing a mask, nor social distancing. He was behaving as if FIJI was God's island while three million have died worldwide from Covid

"As New Zealand and Australia wake to a new travel bubble, Fiji is waking to confirmation of a case of Covid-19 in the community - and a local lockdown." The New Zealand Herald, 18 April 2021; only yesterday Fijileaks warned Bainimarama to stop boasting and follow covid rules

Where is Physical Distancing?

Participants ATTENDING the Gender, Masculinity and Non-Violence Training for Men and Boys

MASKLESS COVID MESSENGER:
Even Dr Fong, Health Secretary, has never been seen in a mask in public

Maskless Dr Fong

British Health Secretary
Matt Hancock

NASAUCOKO FARMERS URGED TO INCREASE AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION- MINISTER REDDY

BAINIMARAMA'S PRESS CONFERENCE:

Bula vinaka and good afternoon.

As we announced in the early hours of the morning, Fiji is once again faced with a grave and present danger to the lives of our people. We have confirmed our first local case of COVID-19 in more than one year, and we must act quickly to stop it from spreading.

This virus is not a new enemy, we have faced it before, we have defeated it before. We have the knowledge and the expertise to defeat it again. Like before, our success depends on the discipline of every Fijian and our adherence to the measures that we know can keep us safe.

We have already fully mobilized our containment strategy, using the same tactics that led to the successful eradication of community cases in just one month, around this same time last year.

As announced over the weekend, we detected a case of COVID-19 in a soldier who was working in a border quarantine facility. While he was carrying the virus, he had interaction with daytime staff of the facility. In a matter of hours, we identified his 69 first generation contacts –– meaning anyone with any chance of being a close contact –– and entered them into quarantine. All of them have been tested. 68 have tested negative. One has tested positive.

Our positive patient is a 53-year-old woman working as a maid in the quarantine facility. Our investigation has revealed she had an interaction with the soldier when he showed up early to his room as it was being cleaned. Protocol dictates that overlap should not have happened, that is why the woman was not tested before re-entering the public. We’ll have to wait and see what further investigations reveal. What is clear today is that this breach in protocol cannot be repeated. In the meantime, we are confident that our system of border quarantine can function to the high degree it has over the past year.

The woman is a daytime worker and she resides in Nadi. It has been revealed that she had symptoms on Thursday, and authorities were not notified. That means she was contagious when she was at work on Thursday and later on Friday and Saturday when she traveled through the Lautoka and Nadi areas. Perhaps most worryingly, she attended a funeral in Tavakubu Lautoka on Friday and Saturday, traveling alongside other passengers by minivan.

Her movement using public transport, and her attendance –– in close proximity alongside many other Fijians –– at the two-day funeral, makes further transmission in the community highly likely.

To limit the risk of mass community transmission, and to better screen the local population, we have established a Nadi and Lautoka Containment Area and brought new stringent health protection measures into effect.

The Nadi and Lautoka Containment Area has been established from Qeleloa bearing towards Sigatoka, to Nacilau, Vakabuli, and the Waiwai Crossing bearing towards Ba. Ministry of Health and Medical Services personnel and disciplined forces have rapidly established screening points at these entry points.

A 24-hour curfew for the entire containment area was announced this morning to allow our contact tracing teams to trace, identify, and quarantine those who may have had contact with this community case, and lay the groundwork to flush out any other cases of the virus from our communities.

From this afternoon, we will be allowing for limited movement and COVID-safe activity within the Containment Area. These measures are stringent enough to minimise risk, but smart enough to allow people to have some sense of normalcy in their lives. The curfew hours will revert to 2300 hours to 0400 hours. Supermarkets and shops selling food can open so that people can buy food. Banks can open so that people can get money. Pharmacies can open so that people can get medicine. FNPF can open so that people can access funds. Other businesses, such as factories and shops, can open as well. However, it is vital that vendors and businesses ensure strict physical distancing before opening their doors. Make sure customers in queues are spaced out by two metres and manage crowding. Customer-facing businesses should limit customer capacity to 50%. Businesses that do not manage these risks with COVID-safe plans will be shut down.

Within the Nadi and Lautoka Containment Area, higher-risk businesses, such as gyms, movie theatres, video gaming shops, cyber cafes, taverns, bars, billiard shops and amusement arcades cannot open for at least the next 14 days. Restaurants may not open for in-person dining, but may offer delivery and take-away services.

We are also making arrangements to ensure fresh produce, basic food items, manufactured items, and other items can be sent in and out of the containment area. We have managed this sort of cross-border exchange before, and the Police have been instructed to be quick about these approvals so that these goods can flow as freely as possible.

As we learned one year ago, these measures work, and staying at home saves lives. It’s the best and easiest way to protect yourself and your family from getting this deadly virus, and it’s the best way to help Fiji become COVID-contained once again. We expect these measures to be maintained for at least the next 14 days. Stay disciplined, and we will get through this. We know what is required of us, we have done this before. Most importantly, we know that it works.

The new measures don’t end at the borders of the containment area. Nationwide, schools, including private schools, will be closed from tomorrow through at least the end of the term. School boarders will return to where they reside. If they are in the containment area and need to return home outside of the area, they will be allowed to leave in a highly controlled manner.

For the rest of Fiji, the following restrictions will take effect for at least the next 14 days to allow people to go about their lives as safely as possible:

• No religious services are to be held. Non-work gatherings should not happen at all.
• Businesses can remain open with COVID safe plans. All businesses must require customers display the careFIJI app or they must register their details for contact tracing purposes.
• Civil servants living outside of the containment area who work within the area should report to the nearest office outside of the Nadi and Lautoka Containment Area.

Unfortunately, that does mean major events on the calendar over the next 14 days, including the Cocacola games, university graduations and rugby matches, will have to be cancelled.

For those outside of Nadi and Lautoka, you have 24 hours to enter the containment area if you need to. But you will not be allowed to leave for at least the next 14 days.

Those living outside of the containment area who are unable to attend work in the containment area will be allowed to access 220 dollars a fortnight from their FNPF. If funds are insufficient, government will top up their accounts.

We will also approve individuals to travel through the containment area for flights out of Nadi. Aside from some cancellations today, repatriation flights will continue at Nadi International Airport. Though we will be capping visitor arrivals to ensure we have adequate quarantine space available to support our robust contact tracing effort. To ensure we have adequate space in quarantine facilities, those currently in their quarantine periods will be securely ferried out of the containment area to where they reside once they finish their 14 days of quarantine and clear a negative COVID test result.

This situation is rapidly evolving, and –– like we always have –– your government will keep you updated every step of the way.

My fellow Fijians, I know that this is a scary and difficult time for you, for your families, and for the country. It feels much like that chilling moment, just over one year ago, when we learned the first case of COVID-19 had entered the country.

Back then, what was most frightening about having this pandemic here at home wasn’t what we knew about it –– it was what we didn’t know. Today, we face that same enemy, but we are armed with experience. Our contact tracing team is tried and tested, our isolation units have proven successful at containing the virus, and our frontline workers know their task, and know it well.

But today, we also may be facing a new, more contagious, and deadlier variant of COVID. We’re seeing variants pop up around the globe, from the UK to the US to Brazil, India, and South Africa –– variants are resulting in new surges, even in places that are highly vaccinated.

We must, at all costs, be vigilant. We cannot let the past year of freedom from the virus lure us into a false sense of safety.

Because the truth is, the success Fiji has enjoyed - 365 days of COVID-containment, has made all of us far too comfortable with the pandemic that continued to rage beyond our shores. Social distancing has been ignored, masks have gathered dust tucked away in drawers, and businesses went back to operating as usual. The healthy habits that we learned 12 months ago were all but forgotten.

But over the course of the past year, the science has become even more clear that mask-wearing and physical distancing is absolutely essential to stop the virus from spreading. So now, more than ever, we need every woman, man, and child, and every business of every size, to go back to following that proven rule book.

That’s why we are enforcing the same, strict containment measures that have proven successful in the past, and it’s why our contact tracing team is working overtime to identify and isolate every known contact of this latest case.

But we can’t win this battle without you. You all play a pivotal part in our containment efforts. We need every Fijian to do their part to contain this virus, and each and every one of you can help us again defeat this disease.

I hope we all remember the screening clinics we relied on last year to screen for cases of the virus. We are re-activating that network of screening clinics across the country to keep those with COVID-like symptoms away from vulnerable people who visit Health Centres and into separate, dedicated spaces specially designed to effectively identify possible COVID-19 cases. If you have a fever, or any symptoms, like a dry cough or a loss of taste, visit one of these clinics immediately.

I advise Fijians in the containment area to wear masks –– it’s the one thing that may be most important in stopping the spread. Masks are absolutely proven to protect yourself and others from contracting COVID, so we need each of you to urgently pick up this habit. I know that, for the past year, we’ve had the luxury of not needing to put on masks every day, like billions of others have around the world. But today, that needs to change.

And I can’t stress this enough: Everyone needs to download the careFIJI app on their phones if you can. Situations like this one are exactly why we created careFIJI, and its use now is more critical than ever before.
As always, these measures will change with our situation. If we identify new cases, new restrictions will come into effect. The containment area may grow, or constrict to more targeted regions. We will announce those changes through our official government sources, namely the Fijian Government Facebook page. If you do not read it there first, it is not government policy. Full-stop.

I wanted to end today on a bit of good news –– I know we all need it. As of today, 24,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines will be arriving through the COVAX facility. It’s another reminder that even though we are apart from the rest of the world, we have never been alone through this crisis. The entire world is up against this challenge, and we can only overcome it together. The PS for Health and Medical Services will be announcing the details of our vaccine deployment soon.

In the meantime, stay alert for symptoms within yourself or your family –– early detection is absolutely essential to stop the spread. Call number 158 if you’re feeling at all unwell.

Vinaka Vakalevu. Thank you, and God bless Fiji.

The Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong says right now their biggest area of interest is Tavakubu, Lautoka where the 53 year old woman who tested positive for COVID-19 attended a funeral on Friday and Saturday.

Dr Fong says the information they are getting from the woman indicates that apart from three individuals who had travelled to Moturiki, Lomaiviti all other people at the funeral were from a church circuit within Lautoka.

He further says they have traced the 3 people who went to Moturiki.

Dr Fong adds their team in the West has shown a boundary that they maintained and they will be going through that group as part of the screening process.

He says they will have to set up a number of mobile and fixed screening clinics throughout Nadi and Lautoka.
Meanwhile Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama says only 1 of the 69 first generation contacts of the soldier that tested positive for COVID-19, has tested positive for the disease.

Bainimarama says 68 have tested negative.

He says the positive patient is the 53-year-old woman working as a maid in the quarantine facility.

Bainimarama says their investigation has revealed she had an interaction with the soldier when he showed up early to his room as it was being cleaned. He says protocol dictates that overlap should not have happened, that is why the woman was not tested before re-entering the public.

The Prime Minister says they will have to wait and see what further investigations reveal.

He says what is clear today is that this breach in protocol cannot be repeated.

In the meantime, they are confident that their system of border quarantine can function to the high degree it has over the past year.

The woman is a daytime worker and she resides in Nadi.

It has been revealed that she had symptoms on Thursday, and authorities were not notified.

The Prime Minister says that means she was contagious when she was at work on Thursday and later on Friday and Saturday when she travelled through the Lautoka and Nadi areas.

Bainimarama says perhaps most worryingly, she attended a funeral in Tavakubu Lautoka on Friday and Saturday, travelling alongside other passengers by mini bus.

The Prime Minister says the woman’s movement using public transport, and her attendance in close proximity alongside many other Fijians at the two-day funeral, makes further transmission in the community highly likely.

To limit the risk of mass community transmission, and to better screen the local population, Bainimarama said they had established a Nadi and Lautoka Containment Area and brought new stringent health protection measures into effect. The Nadi and Lautoka Containment Area has been established from Qeleloa bearing towards Sigatoka, to Nacilau, Vakabuli, and the Waiwai Crossing bearing towards Ba.

Ministry of Health and Medical Services personnel and disciplined forces have rapidly established screening points at these entry points.Source: Fijivillage News

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India was once seen as a success story in beating the pandemic but Prime Minister Modi now stands accused of cover-ups and dismal failure

COVID SPOILS BAINIMARAMA'S BIRTHDAY BASH IN 2021 AND SPARES FIJI THE UNADULATING PRAISE IN 2019

Fijileaks: Like George Speight and his storm troopers, AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM and other returning travellers should have been locked up on NUKULAU ISLAND, to make sure COVID didn't spread on the mainland

TEMPORARY CLOSURE: SHUT DOWN INDIAN HIGH COMMISSION IN FIJI AND ROUND UP AND RE-TEST ALL THOSE WHO VISITED INDIA AND SINGAPORE. THEY MUST BE THE CODVID SUPERPREADERS IN FIJI

VIRUS FROM INDIA"The soldier caught it after coming into contact with a couple who had returned from India and were positive."Dr James Fong

FROM INDIA WITH HELL:* We should never have allowed Indo-Fijian businessmen, mostly FFP donors, to travel to Covid infected INDIA in the first instance.* We must not blame the soldier nor the poor hotel maid.* BLAME greedy businessmen visting 'Mother India' and returning to Fiji to spread COVID

VULNERABLE TO COVID: Aiyaz Khaiyum should be SHIELDING! It looks like vulnerable Bainimarama has already gone into hiding from COVID. We thought exemption allows for quarantine passengers to return HOME? And, not to roam inside Government Ministries?

VACCINATION STARTS AT HOME but India was playing Vaccine Diplomacy with China, shipping vaccines to FIJI and other countries

FFP led the way in not adhering to their own Covid rules. Pity, those Indian Policemen were not in Fiji to WHACK these breakers with lathis:

Head of School suspended after sending confidential email about COVID-19 patient

COVID AND COCONUT BILO MASKWHILE Fijians were grog-doping on bilos of kava, Indonesians were protecting themselves from Covid

"Shah says during these tough times when everyone is losing out on income, it will be difficult for bus companies to send two buses for a single trip and passengers need to wait for other buses if they see that a bus is getting full."

WANTED:

The FFP Bainimarama-Khaiyum government created a false sense of security and complacency among Fijians of all races about Covid and Fiji. And NFP, playing their obscene Indo-Fijian communal card, wanted Government to keep open mosques and mandirs in time of COVID. Deport them to Mecca and Mumbai

Now, wanting Fijians to be HEROES to Fight COVID

Why YOU never wore a MASK UNTIL COVID HIT FIJI NOW?:

"More than 500 people attended the funeral at Tavakubu, Lautoka. Any person that attended this FUNERAL are now regarded as a "HIGH-RISK"Dr James Fong, Permanent Secretary, Fiji Ministry of Health

SNEEZING WITHOUT MASKS SPREADS CORONAVIRUS:

Fijileaks: As parts of Fiji in LOCKDOWN, Where is AIYAZ KHAIYUM? There are widespread rumours circulating in Fiji and abroad that Khaiyum has been transferred to a hospital in India after developing complications following two major surgeries in Singapore. TRUTH?

"Masks have gathered dust tucked away in drawers" - Bainimarama

BOASTING RATHER THAN BOLSTERING COVID DEFENCES: We never saw him wearing a mask, nor social distancing. He was behaving as if FIJI was God's island while three million have died worldwide from Covid

"As New Zealand and Australia wake to a new travel bubble, Fiji is waking to confirmation of a case of Covid-19 in the community - and a local lockdown." The New Zealand Herald, 18 April 2021; only yesterday Fijileaks warned Bainimarama to stop boasting and follow covid rules

Where is Physical Distancing?

MASKLESS COVID MESSENGER:Even Dr Fong, Health Secretary, has never been seen in a mask in public

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VIRUS FROM INDIA
"The soldier caught it after coming into contact with a couple who had returned from India and were positive."
Dr James Fong

FROM INDIA WITH HELL:
* We should never have allowed Indo-Fijian businessmen, mostly FFP donors, to travel to Covid infected INDIA in the first instance.
* We must not blame the soldier nor the poor hotel maid.
* BLAME greedy businessmen visting 'Mother India' and returning to Fiji to spread COVID

COVID AND COCONUT BILO MASK
WHILE Fijians were grog-doping on bilos of kava, Indonesians were protecting themselves from Covid

"More than 500 people attended the funeral at Tavakubu, Lautoka. Any person that attended this FUNERAL are now regarded as a "HIGH-RISK"
Dr James Fong, Permanent Secretary, Fiji Ministry of Health

MASKLESS COVID MESSENGER:
Even Dr Fong, Health Secretary, has never been seen in a mask in public