CORONAVIRUS UPDATE by His Excellency President Lionel Aingimea, MP Tuesday, 21 June 2022
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
by
His Excellency President Lionel
Aingimea, MP
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
In today's update, His Excellency
President Lionel Aingimea says the total number of positive cases
recorded up to the evening of Monday 20 June is 372.
There are 140 people quarantined at
the Budapest Transition Station, and 150 at the Menen Transition
Station. Eleven people are in the negative pressure Acute Care
Unit, including one child who is well and playful. Three of them
are unvaccinated for personal reasons, but everyone is well and
none of them are showing symptoms nor do they require critical
care.
We are currently at Phase 2 which
is to implement measures to slow the transmission of COVID.
Currently, our quarantine facilities are near capacity. When we
reach capacity, we will enter Phase 3 which is home isolation.
Given the pace of the numbers
rising, it is likely that by the end of today or tomorrow the
quarantine facilities, at the Budapest and Menen transition
stations, would have reached full capacity and we will switch to
home isolation.
Those in home isolation will be
advised on proper COVID measures such as masking up and
sanitisation.
If you have self-tested using a
Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) kit and tested positive, please call 191
or 192 to report your result. It is important that you do so.
Stay informed through radio, TV and
Facebook for messages from Public Health in regards to whether home
isolation will commence.
More face masks and hand sanitisers
are expected to arrive this week to ensure people are equipped with
these items.
You are urged to wear a mask, use
hand sanitiser, and importantly to stay home.
There are police officers who have
also tested positive and they are in isolation.
The Nauru Police Force (NPF) has received the approval of
the COVID Taskforce to set up an isolation facility in the NPF
training room. This is done for the safety of their families so
that when an officer tests positive at work, they will
be isolated at the dedicated area at the NPF.
President Aingimea is thankful for
everyone's cooperation in staying home and wearing face masks when
outside. We must remember that the safety of
the Nauru community is in our hands.
Be diligent with health measures -
wear your mask, sanitise, keep your distance, no gatherings.