FIJI NEWS: Number of safety measures announced after first case of COVID-19 was confirmed

123

Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama has reported various measures to attempt to segregate and contain COVID-19 after the principal instance of coronavirus in Lautoka.

Fringe Restrictions and Self Quarantine

[smartslider3 slider=3]

By: Vijay Narayan

From 12 PM today around evening time our outskirt limitations on Mainland China, Italy, Iran, Spain, and South Korea will be stretched out to outside nationals who have been available in the USA and all of Europe including the United Kingdom inside 14 days of their expected travel.

Likewise from 12 PM today around evening time, any individual who enters our nation from any abroad goal will be required to self-isolate for 14 days meaning they should remain in one place and evade contact with others or going out in the open.

The most stringent travel limitations have been declared for Lautoka

By: Vijay Narayan

The Prime Minister says beginning at 12 PM today, all schools and trivial organizations inside the Greater Lautoka Area will be shut until further notification.

The administration is characterizing the Greater Lautoka Area as the zone spreading over from King’s Road at Nacilau Junction past Matawalu Village to the feeder street at Vakabuli Junction, to the Queen’s Road at Natalau Junction.

Banks, grocery stores and drug stores, and other basic organizations in the Greater Lautoka Area will stay open.

Fundamental organizations incorporate air and salvage administrations, airport regulation administrations, common avionics, media transmission administrations, nourishment, and clean assembling plants, power administrations, crisis administrations, fire administrations, wellbeing, and emergency clinic administrations, beacon administrations, meteorological administrations, mine siphoning, ventilation and winding, sterile administrations, supply and dissemination of fuel and gas, power, broadcast communications, trash assortment, transport administrations, and water and sewage administrations.

Fijians who work yet don’t live right now report to the closest office outside of the checked zone, whether or not their industry falls under the basic organization’s list.

On the off chance that there is no part of your organization outside of the Greater Lautoka region, if you don’t mind contact your manager and the Prime Minister says government will, in the following, not many days, report how your nonattendance from work will be treated during this circumstance.

Bainimarama says they encourage all businesses to suit the necessities of your workers and not make any representatives repetitive.

He says essentially on the off chance that you are living in the Greater Lautoka Area, you will presently remain in the Greater Lautoka Area. On the off chance that you don’t live in the Greater Lautoka Area, you can’t go there, regardless of whether you work there.

By proceeding with the fundamental administrations, Bainimarama says the legislature will guarantee the stockpile of nourishment will keep on being accessible.

So as to keep up nourishment security, the Agriculture Marketing Authority will purchase natural products, vegetables, and root crops at the fringe of the Greater Lautoka Area from the ranchers and center men to be offered to the merchants available to be purchased at neighborhood advertise in the Greater Lautoka Area.

The Minister for Agriculture will give the points of interest in this program this evening.

Source - NZ Fiji Times
- Advertisement - [smartslider3 slider=4]