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3 new COVID-19 deaths have been reported for the period of 9th to 15th September 2021.
All deaths were reported from the Western Division.
The first COVID-19 death to report is a 56-year-old man from Tavua who died at home on 11th September 2021.
He received the first dose of the vaccine in mid-July.
He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
This means that he was not fully vaccinated.
The second COVID-19 death to report is a 75-year-old man from Tavua.
He presented to the Tavua Hospital in severe respiratory distress.
Sadly, he died two days after admission on 9th September 2021.
He was not vaccinated.
The third COVID-19 death to report is a 48-year-old man from Tavua.
He presented to the Tavua Hospital in severe respiratory distress.
Sadly, he died on the same day on 15th September 2021.
He was not vaccinated.
Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong says following further review they have an additional nineteen COVID-19 deaths to report for the period of 3rd July to 11th August.
All these deaths were reported from the Central Division.
Doctor Fong says an analysis of the nineteen deaths have highlighted that individuals were aged between 43 to 94 years.
11 were males.
16 of the individuals died at home or on their way to the hospital.
17 of these deaths were unvaccinated, the remaining 2 received only one dose of the vaccine.
Doctor Fong says this means that there were no deaths of individuals who were fully vaccinated.
There have also been 21 more deaths of COVID-19 positive patients.
However, these deaths have been classified as non-COVID deaths by their doctors.
The doctors have determined that these deaths were caused by serious pre-existing medical conditions and not COVID-19.
There have now been 566 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 564 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
Fiji has recorded 400 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.
