Health Ministry's Permanent Secretary Dr James Fong says as they continue to escalate community surveillance, they are hoping to pick up more cases of COVID-19 as the two cases in Nadi were identified.
When questioned whether they expect more cases in the coming days as a lot of people are moving in public transport, Dr. Fong says people need to understand that nowhere in the world, a 24 hour curfew lockdown has been done for more than 5 to 6 days.
He says every single lockdown that has happened around the world have always allowed some degree of movement and some degree of essential businesses to operate.
Dr. Fong says Fiji has been strict with the lockdowns.
He adds they have found cases in clusters and are now covering these areas by targeted lockdowns.
Dr. Fong says they have discussed with the RFMF on how they can come up with a plan that looks at community surveillance.
Dr. Fong says the two cases of COVID-19 in Nadi were identified because of escalated community surveillance program.
He says one of the cases from Nadi was accompanying someone who was going to get admitted in the hospital and this person was swabbed before going into the hospital.
He says the second case in Nadi was identified after the person's workplace did random sampling of their staff.
