122 quarantiners to graduate today

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BY MAVIS NISHIMURA PODOKOLO

ONE hundred and twenty-two occupants are set to graduate today from the government-funded facilities, says Health Permanent Secretary, Pauline McNeil.

Permanent Secretary, Pauline McNeil 

Mrs McNeil said: “For our quarantine occupants who have repatriated into the country and currently accommodated at the Governments funded facilities we have 303 occupants.

“Today 122 persons will graduate so that leaves us the balance of those who have flew in from the high-risk countries and those who flew in from Philippines,” she said.

McNeil said these left-over quarantine occupants have had their mandatory quarantine period extended to another 21 days.

She adds, over the last week a small incident of breach of the State of Public Emergency (SOPE) involving two foreigners who disembarked their vessel occurred.

McNeil said this breach is in the sense that they were not allowed to disembark the vessel.

“They went to nearby village opposite Noro port so we reactivate Western Province Health team who have follow up on the incident, take their swabs and four local contacts and the test was done at the Gizo hospital, all six tests detected negative,” she said.

McNeil stressed the above sentiment yesterday at the radio talkback show.

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