'Answered prayers': Fiji declares itself COVID-19 free

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Fiji announced it was COVID-19 free Friday after the island nation's last known infected patient was given the all-clear, continuing the Pacific's ...

Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama attributed the country's virus-free status to"answered prayers, hard work, and affirmation of science".Fiji has just cleared the last of our activeAnd even with our testing numbers climbing by the day, it's now been 45 days since we recorded our last case. With no deaths, our recovery rate is 100%.Advertisement

The Pacific islands were initially seen as among the world's most vulnerable to the virus because of under-resourced health infrastructure and high rates of health conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. There were also fears geographic isolation could turn the islands into infection incubators, like when a measles epidemic in Samoa late last year killed 83 people, most of them babies and toddlers.

As a result, many have not recorded a single case of the virus, including Palau, Tonga, the Solomons Islands, Samoa, the Marshall Islands, Vanuatu, the Cook Islands and Micronesia.

 

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FijiPM No one died. Went on the Ventilator or Respirator...that is DIVINE INTERVENTION !

No, it was quick action not prayers that saved you

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