Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong believes they will be able to catch up with all the backlog once the Fiji Centre for Disease Control is back up today.
He highlighted this when questioned if the closure of the CDC will affect our testing capacity and may lead to an explosion of cases.
Dr Fong says it just so happens that their testing capabilities has dropped when we have a lockdown.
Dr Fong adds another benefit of the lockdown is that a person will not move much even if there is a positive case.
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