The main area of interest for the Ministry of Health right now is Tavakubu, says permanent secretary for health Dr James Fong.
Dr Fong said the 53-year-old woman who had been recorded as Fiji’s first community transmission case in over a year attended a funeral in Tavakubu over the weekend.
She is reported to have travelled between Kerebula in Nadi where she lives to Tavakubu for the funeral but with the current information, Tavakubu is the area of interest.
“The information that we are getting from the person and the event that they attended to which was the funeral at Tavakubu, all indicate that apart from three individuals, who went all the way to Moturiki, and we’ve tracked them, we’ve got them,” he said.
“The rest of those who were at the funeral were within Lautoka, from a church circuit within the Lautoka area and they all reside within the Lautoka area.”
He said the ministry’s team in the west had a boundary they had maintained and would be screening the people within that boundary.
He also said fixed and mobile screening clinics would be set up throughout Lautoka and Nadi.
