The fastest way people in lockdown can start to earn a living again is to contain the virus - Fong

The fastest way people in lockdown can start to earn a living again is to contain the virus - Fong

By Rashika Kumar
28/04/2021
[Image: Fiji Police Force]

Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the fastest way people who cannot earn a living because of the lockdown can start to earn a living again is to contain the virus and ensure that it does not spread anymore.

Dr.Fong says the best and most sustainable way of mitigating the problems that they have is for people to comply with the orders and keep still so that the lockdown period is as short as possible.

He says they have allowed shops in the zones to open and have also allowed supplies to be dropped at the border as long as somebody picks it up from the other side.

The Permanent Secretary says they want freight, fuel and food to move, but not human beings who should stay in their own containment areas.

He says he realises the difficulty that many people will face and this is not something that they are doing easily adding that he has already acknowledged in his mind that unless they sort out food supply, freight supply and essential supplies, there is a danger that he may not be able to sustain the containment.

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Fong highlighted this while responding to a question on what the government is doing to provide alternative avenues of livelihood as Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of i-Taukei Affairs also announced that Fijians cannot fish in their own fishing areas and the villages are to set up their lockdown areas.

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