Tracing and testing continues for contacts from Extra Supermarket

Tracing and testing continues for contacts from Extra Supermarket

By Vijay Narayan
Thursday 13/05/2021
Extra Supermarket

Through the careFiji contact tracing app, the Health Ministry has managed to locate many people who may have been in close proximity with a positive COVID-19 case at Exta Supermarket at Flagstaff.

An Extra Supermarket employee from Makoi tested positive on Tuesday and three of his co-workers tested positive yesterday. Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says careFiji’s use has given them a huge advantage in identifying the closest contacts stemming from the supermarket cases.

He says they are already locating them and testing them in droves.

Doctor Fong says they expect many more of these individuals to register positive test results.

Some of the people have also received messages from the Ministry of Health today that their self isolation period has ended.

He says careFIJI’s data has supplied them with a much clearer starting point for the contact tracing.

Doctor Fong says at the moment, they believe the vast majority of these remaining contacts are located in Suva and Nausori.

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