Melanesian Hotel Not a Quarantine Facility: Waqainabete

The Fiji Sun – 30 January 2020

Minister for Health and Medical Services Dr Ifereini Waqainabete has clarified that the Melanesian Hotel in Nadi is not a quarantine facility.

However, the hotel has been used by the Immigration Department to keep visitors from around the world who have yet to gain clearance to enter Fiji.

His comments come after Opposition Leader Sitiveni Rabuka has yet again politicised Government efforts following the outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019 – nCoV) in Wuhan city, China.

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