Fong thanks everyone within the lockdown zone for staying home this weekend

Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong has thanked everyone within the Suva Nausori lockdown zone for staying home this weekend.

Dr. Fong says your time at home is being used efficiently by his teams to identify and isolate positive COVID-19 patients and they appreciate your support and cooperation.

He says the Ministry’s contact tracing teams are using the lockdown period as a window of opportunity to trace and test primary and secondary contacts of existing cases within Suva and Nausori.

Fong says the nature and the number of cases that they confirm through the lockdown period will inform their next steps.

The lockdown of Suva and Nausori will come to an end on Wednesday, 19th May at 4am.

The Permanent Secretary says travel for medical emergencies is permitted and only essential service providers with explicit authorisation from the government may operate.

For the rest of Viti Levu, the 6pm to 4am curfew has come into effect from last night.

Doctor Fong is urging the public to stay home and stay safe.