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Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong has confirmed 3 new COVID-19 deaths in the Central Division from August 11th to 13th and 467 new COVID cases. The first COVID-19 death is a 62 year old woman from Nakasi who died at home on 13th August. She was not vaccinated.
The second death is a 79 year old man from Tailevu who died at home on 11th August. He was also not vaccinated. The third COVID-19 death is an 80 year old woman from Suva who died at home on 14th August. She was not vaccinated. Doctor Fong says there have now been 371 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 369 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
The national 7 day rolling average of COVID-19 deaths per day is 7.
Fiji has also recorded 194 COVID 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 467 new cases, 258 cases are from the Western Division and 209 cases are from the Central Division.
There have been 231 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 23,831 active cases.
17,226 active cases are in the Central Division, 6,604 active cases in the Western Division and 1 active case in the Northern Division.
There have been 40,167 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded 40,237 cases in Fiji since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 15,841 recoveries.
