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Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong has confirmed there are 6 new COVID-19 deaths from July 29th to 30th while there are 1,121 COVID cases for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am today.

The first COVID-19 death is a 79-year-old man from Caubati who died at home on 29th July. He was not vaccinated.

Doctor Fong says the second death is a 65-year-old woman from Nasinu. She was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the CWM Hospital Emergency Department on 29th July. This means that she died at home or on her way to the hospital. She was not vaccinated.

The third death is a 58-year-old man from Nausori. He presented to a medical facility in severe respiratory distress. A medical team retrieved him from the medical facility and brought him to CWM Hospital. His condition worsened in the hospital and he died on the same day on 30th July. He was not vaccinated.

The fourth death is a 71-year-old woman from Nabua who died at home on 30th July. She was not vaccinated.

Doctor Fong says the fifth death is a 51-year-old man from Suva who died at home on 30th July. He was not vaccinated.

The sixth death is an 89-year-old man from Tailevu. He presented to a medical facility in severe respiratory distress. A medical team retrieved him from the medical facility and brought him to the CWM Hospital. His condition worsened in the hospital and he died 10 days after admission on 30th July. He was not vaccinated.

There have been 7 more deaths of COVID-19 positive patients.

However, their 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 and not COVID-19.

There have now been 238 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 236 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.

The 7 day rolling average of COVID-19 deaths per day is 8.

Fiji has recorded 130 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.

Of the 1121 new cases, 241 cases are from the Western Division and 880 cases are from the Central Division.

A full breakdown of areas of interest will be published online tonight on the Ministry’s COVID-19 dashboard.

You can check out the link on our website, fijivillage.

There have been 510 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 21,707 active cases.

18,572 active cases are in the Central Division and 3,135 in the West.

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 29,711 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.

Fiji has recorded a total of 29,781 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 7,705 recoveries.

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