By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-12-15 17:46:39 | Updated at 2024-12-15 21:45:26
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Seven foreigners including four Australians and an American have been hospitalised after drinking cocktails at a five-star Fiji hotel resort, health officials said on Sunday.
The hotel guests were taken to hospital on Saturday night suffering “nausea, vomiting and neurological symptoms”, Fiji’s health ministry said in a statement.
They fell ill after drinking a cocktail prepared at a bar in the luxury Warwick Fiji resort on the Coral Coast, about 60 km (40 miles) west of the capital Suva, it said.
A ministry spokesperson said the guests, aged from 18 to 56, included four Australians, one American and two foreigners who live in Fiji, whose nationalities were not given.
All seven were initially taken to the nearby Sigatoka hospital.
Because of the severity of their conditions, they were later transferred to the larger Lautoka Hospital on the island’s west coast, the ministry spokesperson said.
