There are 11 new COVID-19 deaths from 31st July to 4th August while 1187 new cases have been confirmed.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says 9 of the deaths were in the Central Division and 2 deaths were from the Western Division.
The first COVID-19 death is a 65-year-old man from Nasinu who died at home on 3rd August. He was not vaccinated.
The second death is a 75-year-old man from Suva who died at home on 2nd August. He was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the third COVID-19 death is a 68-year-old woman from Kinoya who died at home on 31st July. She was not vaccinated.
The fourth death is a 78-year-old woman from Tailevu. She presented to a medical facility in severe respiratory distress. Her condition worsened at the medical facility and she died on the same day on 3rd August. She was not vaccinated.
The fifth COVID-19 death is a 71-year-old man from Tailevu who died at home on 31st July. He was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the sixth death is a 50-year-old woman from Lautoka. She was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Lautoka Hospital. This means that she died at home or on her way to the hospital. She was not vaccinated.
He says the seventh COVID-19 death is a 21-year-old man from Malake Island. He was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Rakiraki Sub-Divisional Hospital. His family reported that he had shortness of breath one day prior to the presentation. He received his first dose of the vaccine in early May. He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The eighth death is a 53-year-old woman from Nasinu. She presented to the CWM Hospital Emergency Department in severe respiratory distress. Her condition worsened at the hospital and she died one day after admission on 3rd August. She was not vaccinated.
The ninth death is a 44-year-old man from Suva who died at home on 4th August. He was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the tenth COVID-19 death is a 60-year woman from Caubati who died at home on 4th August. She was not vaccinated.
The eleventh death is a 61-year woman from Makoi who died at home on 4th August. She was not vaccinated.
There have been 3 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.
With the newly reported deaths, there have now been 272 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 270 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 also has recorded 142 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 1187 new cases, 387 cases are from the Western Division and 800 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 1204 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 22,658 active cases.
18,318 active cases are in the Central Division and 4,340 in the West.
There have been 33,850 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
The country has recorded a total of 33,920 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 10,848 recoveries.
