CORONAVIRUS UPDATE by His Excellency President Lionel Aingimea, MP Tuesday, 28 June 2022
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
by
His Excellency President Lionel
Aingimea, MP
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
In today's update, the accumulative
statistics as at end of Monday, 27 June, are as follows:
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388 new cases
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2,780 active cases
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2,780 total cases
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892 tests done yesterday (Mon, 27 June)
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8,929 tests done this outbreak
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11 cases admitted in the hospital Acute Care Unit with an
additional 5 carers (2 moderate symptoms, 9 mild symptoms) 2
patients have asthma/lung/heart disease background. Both are
improving.
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0 critical cases
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0 ventilation
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282 houses in lockdown with 2,341 residents (Correction to
yesterday's figure, should be 224 houses)
All tests done in the last two
weeks -- 31 per cent or approximately one in three people
tested positive.
The government quarantine transit
stations are currently holding 324 people; 111 people are isolating
at the Budapest and 213 at the Menen.
As of Monday 27 June, 522 children
ages 5-11 received their vaccination. The vaccination station for
this group is at Aiue Boulevard. Get your child vaccinated.
All children should receive their second dose three to four weeks
after the 1st dose.
Testing stations at the
Tigers and Blues ovals, and Naoero Public Health are open.
Public Health is still conducting
home visits for testing. Call 191 if you need to be tested.
The public is encouraged to get
tested so we can follow whether the cases continue to rise or
slowing down. Please get tested if you have symptoms such as fever,
cough, sore throat, running nose etc., or have been in close
contact with a positive case.
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 three days.
Those who have access to Rapid
Antigen Tests (RATs) please call 192 to register your results.
Always wear a mask.
Special measures for COVID cases
who are Essential workers have been put in place.
Essential services are Health
Department, Nauru Police Force, Utilities, Bendigo Bank, Digicel,
Eigigu Supermarket, Capelle & Partner, some restaurants,
caterers and certain departments.
- These entities will designate specific (essential) workers that
need to physically attend work to ensure services continue
- Essential workers are permitted to leave isolation/home
temporarily for work purposes
- Essential workers must travel either alone or with other
essential workers. The travel must only be made between
isolation/home and work. No other stops in between
- Workspace must be distanced or physically separated from the
public and other workers
- Must work alone or with other essential workers who are COVID
cases or have fully recovered from COVID, and must remain in their
designated workspace
- Essential workers are able to end isolation after 10 days if
they have not had COVID symptoms or if their symptoms have resolved
by day 7 and have waited 3 days without symptoms
- Be reminded that you must have a negative RAT test before
ending isolation
- Please adhere to these special measures in place
Important numbers to remember:
191 - to ask to have a COVID test
done
192 - to report your positive test
result if you did your own test
5565186 - to request for
accommodation at the quarantine stations if you cannot self-isolate
at home
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