CORONAVIRUS UPDATE by His Excellency President Lionel Aingimea, MP Sunday, 26 June 2022
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
by
His Excellency President Lionel
Aingimea, MP
Sunday, 26 June 2022
In today's update, His Excellency
President Lionel Aingimea says the accumulative statistics as at
end of Saturday, 25 June, are as follows:
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630 new cases
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2,102 active cases
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1,587 tests done yesterday (Sat 25 June)
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7,727 tests done this outbreak
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7 in the hospital Acute Care Unit (3 new admissions)
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2 moderate/severe cases (1 adult with underlying illness, 1 child
with high fever)
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0 cases on ventilator
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All other cases are stable and will be discharged soon
Twenty seven per cent, or
approximately 1 in 3 people tested are positive.
The government quarantine transit
stations are currently holding 333 people; 222 people are isolating
at the Budapest and 111 at the Menen.
The total number of houses around
the island that are in lockdown is 195 with 1,737 residents. The
government is offering cartons of water, noodles and eggs to these
houses in lockdown.
The number of houses that went into
lockdown over the week were:
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29 between 17-20 June
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65 from 21-22 June
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135 on 23 June
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155 on 24 June
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195 on 25 June
Vaccination for children aged 5 to
11 years commenced yesterday and 351 children received their shots.
Vaccination for the group is closed today but will resume tomorrow,
from 12 noon.
Get your child vaccinated. There is
no harm and there may be benefit to your child if they receive the
vaccine and then get COVID soon after.
If your child has already been
infected with COVID during this outbreak, you can wait until late
September for the first dose and then their second dose three to
four weeks later, before the end of October.
Testing stations at Tigers and
Blues ovals are open today but Naoero Public Health will be closed
today however they continue to do home testing. Call 191 if you
need to be tested.
If you have tested positive before,
you don't need to be tested again. But you must follow advice from
public health and Taskforce on 13 days isolation until you are
cleared for 3 days.
Those who have access to Rapid
Antigen Tests (RATs) please call 192 to register your results.
There have been reports of people
who have tested positive but are not isolating and are out in the
community. Stay home and isolate as advised.
If you feel unwell, please stay
home and complete your full 13 days isolation, and if you
have no symptoms for three days after that then you are good to go
back into the community.
Protect the rest of the public by
isolating.
Even if you are feeling well, you
can still be contagious and pose a risk to others.
These isolation protocols may
change and reduce as we go through the outbreak, but for now, all
positive cases should still be strictly isolating and not going out
at all.
Sitting in the car and wearing a
mask doesn't prevent the virus from spreading. Stay home.
If you are a close contact,
self-isolate for 2 days and if you have a negative rapid antigen
test (RAT) result, you may stop isolation. But keep wearing your
mask.
If you develop symptoms (runny
nose, coughing) then return to isolation for another two days and
get tested.
Services are under pressure and
frontline workers are also isolating because they have COVID so
there are a limited number of people doing these services.
Please be considerate and
understanding of the people working hard to keep these services
operating. Limiting demands on these services where possible will
help.
We must adhere to the directions of
the Taskforce and health - wear a mask, sanitise, stay home, keep
your distance.
Report your positive result by
calling 192.
Gatherings are not permitted. This
includes going to the gym. There is a lot of virus spreading in the
community and we need everyone to help slow the spread so we
protect the vulnerable.
If you're unable to isolate at home
or don't feel safe to do so, you can request to isolate in
Quarantine Accommodation where there are health staff and other
support available. Call 556 5186 to confirm room availability.
Call 192 to register your positive
result. The lines may be busy due to the overwhelming number of
calls, however, keep calling and your call will be answered.
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