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The Health Ministry says they have 29 COVID-19 deaths to report for the period of 6th July 2021 to 17th September 2021.
Twenty-eight COVID-19 deaths were reported from the Central Division while one COVID-19 death was reported from the Western Division.
Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong says an analysis of the 29 deaths have highlighted that individuals were aged between 35 to 89 years.
Doctor Fong says 16 were males and 28 of the individuals died at home or on their way to the hospital.
He says 24 of the individuals were unvaccinated.
Doctor Fong has revealed that 4 of the individuals that died from COVID-19 had received one dose of the vaccine and one death was fully vaccinated.
He says the fully vaccinated individual was elderly and was admitted with severe comorbidity.
Doctor Fong adds there have been 16 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 a serious pre-existing medical condition and not COVID-19.
There have now been 621 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 619 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
