Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong has announced 11 new COVID-19 deaths from 22nd to 27th July and 715 COVID cases for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am yesterday.
97 cases are from the Western Division and 618 cases are from the Central Division.
One of the COVID-19 deaths is a 46-year-old healthcare worker from the CWM Hospital. She presented to the CWM Emergency Department in severe respiratory distress. She reported having a fever and cough for five days. Her condition worsened in hospital and she died 2 days after admission on 26th July. She was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the second COVID-19 death is a 65-year-old man from Makoi who died at home on 26th July. He received the 1st dose of the vaccine in mid-July.
The third death is a 74-year-old woman from Lami who died at home on 26th July. She was not vaccinated.
The fourth COVID-19 death is a 71-year-old woman from Davuilevu Housing who died at home on 26th July. She was not vaccinated.
The fifth death is a 66-year-old woman from Caubati who died at home on 26th July. She was not vaccinated.
The sixth death is a 79-year-old woman from Lami who died at home on 22nd July. She was not vaccinated.
The seventh COVID-19 death is a 75-year-old man from Samabula. He presented to the CWM Hospital emergency department in severe respiratory distress. His condition worsened in the hospital and he died on the same day on 25th July. He was not vaccinated.
The eighth COVID-19 death is a 62-year-old woman from Suva. She presented to the CWM Hospital emergency department in severe respiratory distress. Her condition worsened in the hospital and she died 2 days after admission on 26th July. She was not vaccinated.
The ninth death is a 67-year-old man from Korovisilou. He presented to the CWM Hospital emergency department in severe respiratory distress. His condition worsened in the hospital and he died 4 days after admission on 26th July. He was not vaccinated.
The tenth death is a 63-year-old woman from Nausori. She presented to a medical facility in severe respiratory distress. A medical team retrieved her from the health facility and brought her to the FEMAT field hospital. Her condition worsened at the FEMAT field hospital and she died 6 days after admission today. She was not vaccinated.
The eleventh COVID-19 death is a 69-year-old man from Nadera. He presented to the FEMAT field hospital in severe respiratory distress. A medical team retrieved him from the FEMAT field hospital and brought him to the CWM hospital. His condition worsened in the hospital and he died two days after admission on 26th July. He received the 1st dose of the vaccine in mid-June. He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
There has been 1 more death of COVID-19 positive patient.
However, her death has been classified as non-COVID death by her doctors.
Doctors have determined that her death was caused by a serious pre-existing medical condition and not COVID-19.
Doctor Fong says there have now been 206 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 204 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
The 7 day rolling average of COVID-19 deaths per day is 7.
Fiji has also recorded 102 COVID-19 positive patients who died from the serious medical conditions that they had before they contracted COVID-19; these are not classified as COVID-19 deaths.
There have been 128 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 18,512 active cases.
16,518 active cases are in the Central Division and 1,994 in the West.
Doctor Fong says all cases that were recorded in the Northern and Eastern Divisions (cases that were imported from Viti Levu) have recovered and there are no active cases currently in those divisions.
There have been 25,069 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded a total of 25,139 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 6,319 recoveries.
A full breakdown of areas of interest has been published online on the Ministry’s COVID-19 dashboard.
