Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong confirms 91 new COVID-19 cases have been reported between 6 o’clock Wednesday night and 8 o’clock yesterday morning.
Doctor Fong says they are shifting to a new daily reporting format that will replace the current evening public reporting of the consolidated cases for the day.
He says from today, the new daily cases will be reported to the public at 3pm for the 24 hour reporting period of 8am to 8am.
Doctor Fong says this will allow the teams to investigate new cases and gather information to share with the public in a more efficient manner.
He says sadly, a 76-year-old man has died due to COVID-19.
The man was admitted at the CWM Hospital and had a severe pre-existing medical condition.
Doctor Fong says his cause of death has been assessed by his doctors to be due to COVID-19.
This is the 4th death due to COVID-19 during this current outbreak.
49 of the new cases reported have been confirmed in the existing clusters.
1 case is from the Waila cluster, 5 from the Rewa Operations Centre cluster, 1 from the Vunivivi cluster, 2 from the Nasinu Police Barracks cluster, 4 from the Korovou cluster, 13 from the Navosai cluster, 17 from the CWM Hospital cluster, 4 cases from the Tramline, Nadi cluster, 1 case from the Grantham Road cluster and 1 case from the Town House hotel cluster.
36 cases have been identified as primary contacts of earlier cases, and the respective response teams are determining the cluster link.
This includes 3 cases from Veisari Lami and 5 cases from Delainavesi, Lami.
Doctor Fong says 1 case from Vusuya, Rewa, 1 case from Namuka-i-Lau, Lami, 1 case from Lami village, 1 case from Waikerekere, Lami and 2 cases from Raiwaqa are also under investigation.
A review of cases recently reported from Nadi has revealed a duplicate entry for 1 case, therefore the duplicate has been removed from the active and total case count.
64 COVID-19 cases have recovered, which means there are now 1068 active cases in isolation.
There have been 1,463 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded a total of 1533 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020.
There have been 452 recoveries and 6 deaths due to COVID-19.
A total of 7 COVID-19 positive patients have died from pre-existing non-COVID-19 related illnesses.
