Passengers return negative COVID results_12Mar2022
REPUBLIC OF NAURU
Government Information Office
MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Saturday, 12 March, 2022
Passengers return negative
COVID results
During a scheduled PCR testing of
travellers who flew in to Nauru on the 10th of
March flight from Brisbane, three passengers were detected with
very small traces of COVID-19 fragments.
The initial test results suggested
shedding from old infection but this needed further testing to
confirm.
These passengers had no known past
COVID infection and had been well and asymptomatic. All previous
tests taken before their travel were all negative.
President Lionel Aingimea also
travelled on the same flight.
The presidential delegation all
returned negative PCR tests results yesterday (Friday, 11
March).
As a precautionary measure the
COVID-19 Taskforce decided to move the President and delegation to
the transit station at the Meneñ Hotel quarantine facility as
further tests and assessments were carried out to determine whether
the three cases were in fact old infections.
Further tests undertaken today
(Saturday 12 March) confirm that the three passengers were shedding
very small fragments from past infection, which has resolved. They
do not have active COVID and are not contagious.
Nauru is still a COVID-free
country.
Nauru's pre-travel safe
accommodation program in Brisbane, Australia,
in-country quarantine facilities and rigorous testing regime are
all part of the government's "Capture and "Contain strategy to
ensure any possibility of the COVID virus entering Nauru is
captured at the border and stopped from entering the community.