Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong has confirmed 10 new COVID-19 deaths from 30th July to 10th August.
All deaths are reported from the Central Division.
The first COVID-19 death is an 82 year old man from Nausori who died at home on 8th August. He was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the second death is a 69 year old woman from Suva who died at home on 7th August. She was not vaccinated.
The third death is a 64 year old woman from Wailea who died at home on 8th August. She received the first dose of the vaccine in late May. She did not receive the 2nd dose of the vaccine.
The fourth COVID-19 death is a 64 year old man from Suva who died at home on 9th August. He was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the fifth death is a 47 year old man from Kinoya who died at home on 9th August. He was not vaccinated.
The sixth COVID-19 death is a 44 year old woman from Lami. She presented to the CWM Hospital in severe respiratory distress. She died ten days after admission at the CWM Hospital on 30th July. She was not vaccinated.
The seventh death is a 72 year old man from Kalabu. He presented to the CWM Hospital in severe respiratory distress. He died one day after admission at the CWM Hospital on 9th August. He received the first dose of the vaccine in early June. He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
Doctor Fong says the eighth death is a 52 year old woman from Nabua. She presented to the CWM Hospital in severe respiratory distress. She died 12 days after admission on 9th August. She was not vaccinated.
The ninth death is a 63 year old man from Lami. He presented to the CWM Hospital in severe respiratory distress. He died 2 days after admission on 9th August. He was not vaccinated.
The tenth COVID-19 death is a 51 year old woman from Suva. She presented to the CWM Hospital in severe respiratory distress. She died 17 days after admission on 10th August. She was not vaccinated.
There have been 3 more deaths of COVID-19 positive patients. However, these 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 327 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 325 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 171 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 264 new cases of COVID, 131 cases are from the Western Division and 133 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 257 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 24,414 active cases.
18,948 active cases are in the Central Division and 5,446 active cases in the Western Division.
There have been 37,776 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded a total of 37, 846 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 12,934 recoveries.
