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Four people are in isolation in Fiji and are being tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus.
The Ministry of Health said it had widened its case definition for suspected cases to include anyone with respiratory symptoms who had recently been to a country where the virus had been transmitted locally.
The World Health Organisation has said the virus has been transmitted in 30 countries to date.
As a result of the new standards, four people are being monitored for coronavirus in Fiji but are reported to be in a stable condition.
A 15-month old girl developed respiratory symptoms in Suva after arriving from the US this week.
A woman, 37, returning from a trip to Italy was flagged with respiratory symptoms during a health screening at Nadi airport.
A Fijian boy, 3, and his mother, 26, also developed symptoms after returning from Bali and Singapore.
Contact tracing and testing is under way for all four.
Suspected case in Tonga
Tonga is dealing with its first suspected case of the virus, after a Tongan woman, 21, returned from Sydney on Monday with influenza symptoms, Matangi Tonga reports.
She had visited a doctor in Australia last week but was told she only had the flu.
However, her symptoms became worse in Tonga, where it was confirmed on Wednesday she is suffering from pneumonia.
Health officials reportedly suspect the woman has contracted coronavirus because of how quickly her lung infection developed.
Prime Minister Pohiva Tu'i'onetoa said samples had been sent to New Zealand for testing which could be done within three days.
Tonga's Ministry of Health is now tracking down people the woman has had contact with in Tonga, as well as passengers on the aircraft she arrived on.
NZ helping Pacific nations cope with Covid-19 threat
Meanwhile, New Zealand is to provide help to Pacific countries to help them get ready for the coronavirus threat.
Foreign Minister Winston Peters said it was vital that New Zealand was working hard in partnership with its neighbours to ensure the region was safe and as prepared as could be for the virus.
New Zealand is jointly funding the World Health Organisation's Pacific regional coronavirus response plan, in partnership with Australia, in response to requests for assistance from Pacific island countries.
The New Zealand government has contracted the Institute of Environmental Science and Research to receive samples of potential Covid-19 cases for testing, free of charge.
Mr Peters said New Zealand was also sending teams to the Realm countries, the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau to support their preparedness.
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China has been battling an outbreak of a new SARS-like coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, with the city of Wuhan as the epicenter. So far, 425 people have died because of the disease and more than 20,000 people have been confirmed infected. China has allocated $144 million to combat the virus. The country and several of its cities are under a travel lockdown as other nations try to contain the spread of the virus. Philippines reported the first death outside of China on Feb. 2, 2020, and Hong Kong on Feb. 3. Other countries such as Spain, India, Canada, France, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Germany and the U.S. have reported confirmed cases of the infection. The U.S. declared a public health emergency on Jan. 31 and said foreign nationals who have visited China in the past two weeks would be denied entry. On Jan. 30, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global emergency. As part of its efforts to fight the virus, China has built a specialized hospital in just a few days.
(Pictured) Stewardesses take temperatures of passengers as a preventive measure on an Air China flight from Melbourne, Australia, to Beijing, China, at the Beijing Capital International Airport on Feb. 4.
Beds are set up at an exhibition center, which was converted into a hospital, in Wuhan on Feb. 4.
This handout photo released by Malaysia's Ministry of Health shows citizens being directed onto a bus by health officials as they arrive at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia in Feb. 4.
People wear face masks as they go about their daily lives in Singapore on Feb. 4.
Medical workers hold a strike outside the office of Hospital Authority in Hong Kong, as they demand the closure of borders with China, on Feb. 4.
A passenger wears a protective mask on a train in Hong Kong on Feb. 4.
A devotee wears a mask as he sorts out offerings at a temple in Taipei, Taiwan, on Feb. 4.
A nurse checks the temperature of a visitor as part of the coronavirus screening procedure at a hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Feb. 3.
Police walk past signage before the arrival of Myanmar students, who were evacuated on a chartered flight from Wuhan, at the international airport in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Feb. 2.
Members of the Association for Sri Lanka and China Social and Cultural Cooperation (ASLCSCC) hold candles during a vigil to pray for people who are suffering from the coronavirus in the world, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Feb. 1.
German Minister for Defense Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (R) and German Minister for Health Jens Spahn give a joint statement in Bonn, Germany, on Feb. 1, on the evacuation of more than 100 German citizens from Wuhan following the coronavirus outbreak.
Alex Azar, U.S. secretary of health and human services, speaks during a press briefing on the coronavirus at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 31.
Arnaud Fontanet, director of global health department at Institut Pasteur, speaks during a news conference over the latest findings on coronavirus in Paris, France, on Jan. 31.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, and Didier Houssin, chair of the emergency committee, at the opening of the second meeting of the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee for Pneumonia due to the Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV in Geneva, Switzerland, on Jan. 30.
Medical staff with protective clothing are seen inside a ward specialized in treating people who may have been infected with the virus, at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General hospital in Chennai, India, on Jan. 29.
Tedros Adhanom, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference at the United Nations, in Geneva, on Jan. 29.
Passengers arriving on flights wear protective masks at the international airport in Auckland, New Zealand, on Jan. 29.
A medical worker in a protective suit checks the body temperature of a driver at a checkpoint outside the city of Yueyang, China, on Jan. 28.
Students disinfect their hands before entering class at a school in Phnom Penh, on Jan. 28. Cambodia's health ministry reported the country's first case of coronavirus on Jan. 27.
A woman wearing a protective mask prays at the Lungshan Temple on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, in Taipei, Taiwan, on Jan. 28.
Paramilitary officers wearing face masks stand guard at the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, on Jan. 27.
Dr. David Williams, the chief medical officer of Ontario (C), speaks as Dr. Eileen de Villa, medical officer of health for the city of Toronto (L) and Dr. Barbara Yaffe, Ontario's associate chief medical officer of health, during a press briefing on coronavirus at Queens Park in Toronto, Canada, on Jan. 27. The Ontario health officials announced the confirmation of the first case of coronavirus in Toronto, along with a presumptive second case of the virus in the city.
A woman wearing a face mask walks out of a supermarket in Beijing, on Jan. 26.
Images captured by a thermographic imaging device to check the temperatures of arriving passengers at a quarantine station are seen on a monitor at the Oscar Arnulfo Romero International Airport in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, on Jan. 26.
A security force member stands in front of the pandemic center where a suspected case of coronavirus is under observation at Félix Houphouët Boigny International Airport in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Jan. 26.
A banner placed by Indian health workers is seen during a coronavirus information camp for travelers at an India-Nepal border crossing, near Siliguri, India, on Jan. 26.
(L-R) Sabine Hagenauer of the infection department at the 4th medical department of Kaiser Franz Josef Hospital, Michael Binder, medical director of the Vienna Hospital Association, and Judith Aberle of the department of virology, Medical University Vienna, address a press conference at Kaiser-Franz-Josef hospital in Vienna, Austria, on Jan. 26. A Chinese flight attendant was quarantined in the hospital with symptoms of flu, in what authorities suspected as the first coronavirus case in the country.
A health worker checks the temperature of a woman entering a subway station in Beijing, on Jan. 25.
Dozens of diggers work to build a new hospital in Wuhan, on Jan. 25. Due to the large number of infected people, the government decided to establish a temporary 1,000-bed hospital.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam addresses a press conference in Hong Kong on Jan. 25. Announcing a citywide virus emergency, Lam ordered the cancellation of all official trips to mainland China and school shutdown till Feb. 17.
A police officer stands guard in front of the closed gate of Lama Temple in Beijing on Jan. 25. A notice reads that the temple is closed due to safety concerns following the outbreak of a new coronavirus.
Security personnel wearing hazardous material suits measure body temperatures of passenger at the entrance of a subway station in Beijing on Jan. 25.
A disinfection worker wearing protective gear sprays anti-septic solution in a train at SRT train station in Seoul, on Jan. 24.
Sanitation workers spray a disinfectant at Suseo Station in Seoul, on Jan. 24.
A passenger holds up an Australian Government document pertaining to the coronavirus as passengers arrive at Sydney International Airport in Australia on Jan. 23.
Locals wear face masks while browsing in a store ahead of the Lunar New Year, in Taipei, on Jan. 23, 2020. A day earlier, Taiwan stopped sending tour groups to, or receiving tour groups from Wuhan, China, due to concerns over the cornonavirus outbreak.
Passengers arriving from China are screened at Kolkata International Airport, India, on Jan. 22, 2020. Screening centers have been set up in the Indian cities of Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Cochin apart from three airports at Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata to screen for the coronavirus.
People walk next to signage detailing hygienic practices to prevent the spread of the coronavirus at the Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, China, on Jan. 21.