COVID-19 test results are based on what science has told them - Dr Fong

The Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong has highlighted that the COVID-19 test result is based on what science has told them.

Responding to a question about the case from Naria in Rakiraki where the man claimed that all his test were negative and if this could also be a false positive result as the one in Labasa, Doctor Fong says that is a technical discussion but from a science perspective the man from Naria is positive but he did not transmit the virus to his family.

He says when they tried to duplicate the virus several times in the machine at Fiji Centre for Disease Control, it did not take them long to isolate the virus and when they tried to duplicate it with others that are weakly positive, it took them a longer period to isolate it.

Doctor Fong adds the only thing he can say in the matter is that the science has spoken, the man's result was positive but it just happens that he did not infect others.