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Speaker 1: Rain Bridge.

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Speaker 2: Jim Fat has updated its travel advice for Key. He's

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Speaker 2: heading to Fiji after an alcohol poisoning scare at a

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Speaker 2: resort there. Seven people who all drank cocktails at the

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Speaker 2: resort have become ill and four of them have been hospitalized.

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Speaker 2: In FAT now telling travelers to Fiji to be aware

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Speaker 2: of the risks around drink spiking and methanol poisoning poisoning.

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Speaker 2: Brent Hell is the CEO of Tourism Fiji. He's with

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Speaker 2: me this evening.

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Speaker 1: Good evening, good evening.

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Speaker 2: How are you, Brent? Not a great headline for you, guys.

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Speaker 2: Do you know about the condition of those who are

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Speaker 2: in hospital?

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Speaker 1: No, it's not a great headline, but certainly there has

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Speaker 1: been some good news today. We've had three of the

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Speaker 1: tourists have now been discharged in a returning home, which

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Speaker 1: is great. And the four tourists that still in hospital

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Speaker 1: are certainly stable and they are responding well to treatment.

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Speaker 1: So you know, from that perspective, we're certainly really pleased

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Speaker 1: that first and foremost their health is improving.

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Speaker 2: Did the was it drink spikening? Was it myth and old?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: Well, at this stage, unfortunately we don't know that that. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate that the governments have to do what they do,

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Speaker 1: which is, you know, put those warnings out. But until

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Speaker 1: we actually get the detail of the toxicology report, we

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Speaker 1: don't know for sure. I mean, there's an investigation underway.

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Speaker 1: We've we've done a lot of work with the resort

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Speaker 1: to track back, look at CCTV, investigate the ingredients, et cetera,

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Speaker 1: but we really just can't say for sure what exactly

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Speaker 1: caused these seven tourists in a in a place that

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Speaker 1: has you know, hundreds of tourists that at many different bars,

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Speaker 1: all drinking things like pinicolatas to forall ill, what.

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Speaker 2: Did they all drink the same type of cocktail?

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Speaker 1: They did? Yes, they were all a pinicolata, Yeah, which

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Speaker 1: is a very normal rum based cocktail. Right.

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Speaker 2: So is there any action being taken against the resort

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Speaker 2: at this point or just an investigation and what about

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Speaker 2: other results?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean obviously, as you can imagine, I mean,

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Speaker 1: tourism is so important to Fiji, so everybody is very concerned.

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Speaker 1: We take safety very seriously. We've filled a lot of

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Speaker 1: calls from different resorts, you know, asking if we know,

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Speaker 1: you know, what ingredients it was et cetera. We don't

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Speaker 1: know that yet. The resort's been great, they've certainly they're

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Speaker 1: very distressed, but they certainly have been really helpful. You

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Speaker 1: know that the bar person responsible of serving at the

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Speaker 1: time it has been there for sixteen years, you know,

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Speaker 1: as a long standing employee. They've supplied all their ingredients

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Speaker 1: and their CCTV footage. So we're trying to go through

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Speaker 1: everything to really get to the bottom of just you know,

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Speaker 1: why this one particular group have fallen.

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Speaker 2: Ill. Yeah, it sounds like Brent, thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for that. Brent Hell, the CEO of Tourism Fiji. For

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