Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong confirms that another 64 COVID-19 cases have been recorded and the new cases stem from existing clusters.
10 cases are from the CWM Hospital cluster, 11 from the Nawaka cluster, 23 from the Navy cluster, 9 from the Navosai cluster, 1 from Waila and 10 from the COVID-19 Incident Management Team cluster.
Doctor Fong says for the 83 cases reported on Sunday, they can now confirm that 77 were connected to existing clusters.
23 are from the Incident Management Team cluster, 14 from the CWM Hospital cluster, 6 from the Waila cluster, 3 from Caubati cluster, 11 from the Navosai cluster, 4 from the RFMF cluster, 6 from the Shop N Save cluster, 9 from Samabula and 1 from the Nawaka cluster.
Doctor Fong says the potential for new clusters relates to the 5 cases in Naitasiri and 1 case in Tavua.
He also confirms a patient at CWM Hospital, who had tested positive while admitted, died on Sunday.
However, it has been determined that his death was caused by the serious medical illnesses for which he had been admitted to the hospital, and not COVID-19.
20 patients have recovered, which means there are now 515 active cases in isolation.
There have been 681 cases during the current outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded a total of 751 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020.
We have had 230 recoveries and 4 deaths due to COVID-19.
A total of 86,055 samples have been tested since this outbreak started in April 2021, with 126,476 tested since testing began in early 2020.
