Third COVID-19 positive case detected in quarantine
REPUBLIC
OF NAURU
Government Information Office
MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
Third COVID-19 positive case
detected in quarantine
A third person has tested positive
to COVID-19, detected in quarantine at the RON Hospital acute ward
negative pressure unit on the night of Monday 4 April, His
Excellency President Lionel Aingimea announced this morning.
These three people travelled on a
passenger flight on 31 March and were placed in the COVID Acute
Ward after two of them tested positive while in hotel quarantine.
The third person who tested positive last night is the spouse of
one of the first two cases.
They are well and asymptomatic and
will remain in the Acute Ward for further observation and
testing.
All travellers on that flight are
still in quarantine at the Budapest Hotel and Anibare Village
Transit Station; they are still negative. Their time in quarantine
has been extended to Monday 11 April.
The President assures the community
that Nauru remains COVID-safe as there is no community
transmission. The virus is contained in the Acute Ward and nobody
outside has been exposed.