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6 new COVID-19 deaths have been confirmed from 5th to 6th August while there are 682 new COVID cases.
3 of the deaths were in the Central Division and 3 deaths were from the Western Division.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the first COVID-19 death is an 18 year old woman from Suva who died at home on 5th August. Her family reported that she had a cough five days prior to her presentation. She was not vaccinated.
The second death is a 75 year old man from Nausori. He presented to the CWM Hospital in severe respiratory distress. His condition worsened in the hospital and he died on the same day on 5th August. He received the 1st dose of the vaccine in early July. He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
Doctor Fong says the third death is a 77 year old man from Suva. He presented to the CWM Hospital in severe respiratory distress. His condition worsened in the hospital and he died six days after admission on 7th August. He was not vaccinated.
The fourth COVID-19 death is a 50 year old woman from Lautoka. She presented to the Lautoka Hospital in respiratory distress. Her condition worsened at the hospital and she died 7 days after admission on 5th August. She was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the fifth COVID-19 death is an 85 year old woman from Lautoka. She presented to the Lautoka Hospital in respiratory distress. Her family reported that she had a fever and cough two days prior to the presentation. Her condition worsened at the hospital and she died 2 days after admission on 6th August. She received the 1st dose of the vaccine in late July. She did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The sixth COVID-19 death is a 59 year old woman from Lautoka. She presented to the Lautoka Hospital in respiratory distress. Her family reported that she had a fever, cough and shortness of breath one week prior to presentation. Her condition worsened at the hospital and she died 2 days after admission on 6th August.
There have been 5 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 296 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 294 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.
Fiji has also recorded 158 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 682 new cases of COVID, 193 cases are from the Western Division and 489 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 297 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 24,070 active cases.
19,154 active cases are in the Central Division and 4,916 in the West.
There have been 36,252 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded a total of 36,322 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 11,798 recoveries.
