Curfews can be completely lifted from December 1st
Case numbers, positivity rate, admissions and deaths would indicate when the curfew can be completely lifted – Dr. Fong

Curfews can be completely lifted from December 1st

Case numbers, positivity rate, admissions and deaths would indicate when the curfew can be completely lifted – Dr. Fong

By Rashika Kumar
Monday 11/10/2021
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Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong says there is a possibility that curfews can be completely lifted from December 1st, when the first scheduled tourism flight arrives in the country.

He says case numbers, the positivity rate, admissions and deaths would indicate that COVID-19 is no longer a threat in our communities and curfews can be completely lifted.

He says he would really like to see everyone, including tourists and Fijians get the same treatment in terms of curfew.

Dr. Fong says if tourists stay in their own hotel, they have their own party and there is nobody else accessing that party, then that is not too bad.

Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has announced that once the data shows the virus no longer presents a serious public health threat, they will lift the curfew entirely.

Dr. Fong says they will have to make sure that the COVID numbers accurately reflect the situation by making sure they have a community surveillance programme and the test per 1,000 population should be around 2.5.

The Permanent Secretary says currently, it is at about 1.5 tests per 1,000 population because we are coming out of the mitigation phase.

Dr. Fong says once we get back into full containment phase, they will have to escalate the testing parameters that will mean the testing protocols will have to change and they will have to start using the rapid diagnostic test kits.

He says the problem with the tests is that it takes almost 12 hours to get one test result so they have to start using the rapid diagnostic tests intelligently and make it more sensitive.

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