New Zealand and Fiji have declared themselves free of the coronavirus pandemic at least ‘for now,’ government officials said.
The two countries are amongst of the first set of countries to have done so after Slovenia whose ‘coronavirus-free status’ would later be tainted by fresh cases in May.
The said COVID-19 patient was a woman from the the country’s capital city, Auckland and was released last month, AP reports.The Prime Minister, who announced a lift of thelockdown during the briefing, said the government would not let down its guard over the virus as the country plans to rebuild its pandemic-hit economy.
The country will remove all coronavirus-related curbs on shops, restaurants and offices and physical distancing will no longer be mandatory, although it will remain encouraged but caution will be taken at all levels, the country’s Minister of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, also said. “And 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 per cent,” Mr Bainimarama wrote on Twitter.Fiji, which has a population of about 900,000, imposed a lockdown in certain areas in April and put in place ongoing border restrictions.Now, the country is lobbying to join a “Trans-Tasman travel bubble”, an Australia-New Zealand government initiative to quell the damage done on tourism.
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