The ministry has established three confirmed cases and a number of suspected cases.
Spokesman Peni Namotu said two males and one female in the age range of 20 to 24 has been affected in the Tamavua locality.
Namotu said some of the cases have been tested and are confined in the greater Suva area. He said it was mostly reported from government and private health clinics in Suva.
Namotu said rubella is caused by a virus which is a mild self-limiting disease in children and adults.
“The disease is rarely fatal but it can adversely affect the unborn child for unimmunized pregnant mothers that contract the disease,” he said.
Namotu said rubella is a contagious disease which is transmitted by direct or droplet contact with the respiratory secretions of infected individuals.
