791 new cases of COVID-19 and 3 COVID-19 deaths have been announced for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am yesterday.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the first COVID-19 death is a 61-year-old man from Qauia Village, Lami.
He was brought to the CWM Hospital Emergency Department in severe respiratory distress.
He had been experiencing severe COVID-19 symptoms, including shortness of breath, for two weeks.
He died one day later.
He was not vaccinated.
The Permanent Secretary says the second COVID-19 death is a 75-year-old man from Raiwaqa.
He was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the CWM Hospital Emergency Department.
This means that he died at home or on his way to the hospital.
His family reported that he had been unwell, with symptoms including fever and generalized weakness, for at least 5 days at home.
He was not vaccinated.
The third COVID-19 death is a 67-year-old man from Toorak.
A Ministry response team attended to him at home and transferred him to the CWM Hospital after he reported having symptoms of COVID-19 at home for approximately a week.
His condition worsened in hospital and he died 11 days after admission. He received his 1st dose of the vaccine in mid-June.
He had not received the second dose of the vaccine and was not fully vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says there have been three more deaths of COVID-19 positive patients.
However, these deaths have been classified as non-COVID deaths by their doctors.
Doctors have determined that their deaths were caused by serious pre-existing medical conditions.
There have now been 42 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 40 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
Fiji has also recorded 19 COVID-19 positive patients who died from serious medical conditions that they had before they contracted COVID-19.
There have been 37 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 6,524 active cases.
Doctor Fong says there have been 7,870 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
We have recorded a total of 7,940 cases in Fiji since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 1,355 recoveries.
A full breakdown of areas of interest has been published online on the Ministry’s COVID-19 dashboard.
You can check out the dashboard link on our website, fijivillage.
181,026 samples have been tested since this outbreak started in April 2021, with 223,887 tested since testing began in early 2020.
The national 7-day average daily test positivity is 12.5 percent and continues on an upward trend.
