Fiji fears virus 'tsunami' after outbreak found to be Indian variant

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'We cannot let that nightmare happen in Fiji,' the country's permanent secretary for health and medical services, James Fong, said in a televised address.

Fiji has largely contained the virus through strict isolation measures and border controls

The Pacific country had largely dodged community transmission before a cluster emerged this month centred on a quarantine facility in Nadi, the city that is home to Fiji's international airport. Fiji has largely contained the virus through strict isolation measures and border controls, recording 109 cases and just two deaths in a population of 930,000.The cluster began when a soldier contracted the virus at a quarantine facility and transmitted it to his wife, who then exposed up to 500 people at a funeral.

 

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