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A 15-year-old Tavua girl is among the 11 new COVID-19 deaths announced for the period of 2nd to 5th August while 968 new COVID cases have been confirmed.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says 8 of the deaths were in the Central Division and 3 deaths were from the Western Division.
Doctor Fong says the 15-year-old girl from Tavua presented to a medical facility in respiratory distress and she was transferred to Lautoka Hospital. Her family reported that she had a fever, cough and shortness of breath two days prior to presentation. Clinical investigations revealed that she was positive for both Leptospirosis and COVID-19.
He says sadly, her condition worsened at the hospital and she died one day after admission on 3rd August. Her doctors have determined that she died from severe COVID-19 with Leptospirosis. Both diseases contributed to her death.
The second COVID-19 death is a 60-year-old man from Lami who died at home on 4th August. He was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the third death is a 51-year-old woman from Raiwaqa who died at home on 4th August. She was not vaccinated.
The fourth death is an 85-year-old man from Lautoka. He was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Lautoka Hospital Emergency Department. He was not vaccinated.
The fifth COVID-19 death is an 88-year-old man from Sigatoka. He was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Sigatoka Sub Divisional Hospital. He was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the sixth death is an 86 year old man from Toorak who presented to the CWM Hospital in severe respiratory distress. His condition worsened in the hospital and he died on the same day 4th August. He received the first dose of the vaccine in early June. He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The seventh death is an 85-year-old woman from Tailevu who died at home on 2nd August. She was not vaccinated.
The eighth COVID-19 death is a 55-year-old man from Tailevu who died at home on 2nd August. He was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the ninth death is a 70-year-old woman from Tailevu who died at home on 2nd August. She was not vaccinated.
The tenth COVID-19 death is a 90-year-old man from Raiwai who died at home on 5th August. He was not vaccinated.
The eleventh death is an 85-year-old man from Naitasiri who died at home on 4th August. He was not vaccinated.
There have been 4 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 today’s newly reported deaths, there have now been 283 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 281 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
The 7 day rolling average of COVID-19 deaths per day is 6.
We also have recorded 146 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 968 new COVID cases, 292 cases are from the Western Division and 676 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.
There have been 385 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 23,226 active cases.
18,589 active cases are in the Central Division and 4,637 in the West.
There have been 34,818 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded 34,888 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 11,233 recoveries.
