COVID-19 RELEASE (7)

7th April

Fourty two (42) arrests were made in the last 24 hours which include two lockdown breaches where the suspects trekked through Wailoku to get to Delainavesi.

Curfew arrests accounted for seventeen (17) of the total number of people arrested while twenty-three (23) people were taken in for social gathering breaches.

Twelve (12) of the twenty-three (23) arrests made include a group that were found drinking homebrew and consuming alcohol and yaqona in the Navua district last night.

All those arrested will be produced in court today.

We are clamping down on breaches of social gatherings and all information received will be investigated.

Members of the public have also been sending in photos and videos of people breaching the restrictions for which we are grateful, as we need to work together to fight this virus.

COMMISSIONER OF POLICE 

Brigadier-General Sitiveni Qiliho