Suspicions arose given the role that animal trade and markets had played in the emergence of the closely related SARS-CoV-1 virus nearly two decades earlier.
The proposal was raised during a recent community consultation in Nasoso, Nadi, where residents and police argued that stronger internet restrictions could help protect vulnerable children from sexual abuse within their own homes.
Investigators allege the business received more than $28 million in National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) funding since 2019, with around $18 million of those claims identified as potentially suspicious.
