Health Minister Doctor Ifereimi Waqainabete has dismissed rumors that more people are now under isolation in Fiji for the coronavirus.
Waqainabete stresses that only two Fijian citizens have been placed under isolation at the Nadi Hospital after their arrival into Fiji from Guangdong in China.
He says they are not from Wuhan.
He says this is a precautionary measure adding they are isolating people to make sure there is no threat.
The two currently have mild symptoms.
Response teams by the Health Ministry are also managing close contacts of the patients.
Lab samples of the two patients have been sent to the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre reference laboratory in Melbourne in Australia.
They are expected to be available in a week.
The Health Ministry says as the symptoms are very similar to many other respiratory illnesses including colds and influenza it is expected that with time the Ministry will investigate more persons with relevant travel history and symptoms related to Coronavirus.
The global outbreak has infected over 20,000 people and killed more than 400, most of them in China.
Common coronavirus symptoms include fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties.
Experts are unsure of whether the virus is able to transmit before symptoms appear or after.
If it worsens it can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure or even death.
The virus can be spread from animals to people. But it also can be spread by coughing, sneezing and through close contact with an infected person or an object carrying the virus.
Experts are still figuring out how long an infected person is contagious as they try to determine a point of transmission.
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