A 71-year-old woman from Nausori has passed away due to COVID-19.
Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong says she presented to the CWM Hospital in severe respiratory distress.
Dr Fong says she passed away on Wednesday. She was not vaccinated.
There have been 4 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.
Fiji has now had 505 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 503 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
Dr Fong says as of August 28th, the national 7 day rolling average of COVID-19 deaths per day is 5.
The 7 day rolling average for COVID-19 deaths per day in the Central Division is 1 and in the Western Division is 4.
There are currently 241 COVID-19 patients admitted in the hospital.
Dr Fong says 15 patients are considered to be in severe condition, and 14 are in critical condition.
Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong says Fiji has 250 new cases of COVID-19 with 186 cases from the Western Division, 51 cases are from the Central Division and 13 cases from Kadavu.
Dr Fong says there are now 270 active cases of COVID-19 in Kadavu. All these individuals have been isolated.
He further says the health team in Kadavu with the support of the community engagement team are continuing their work in accessing all villages and communities.
Dr Fong adds new cases continue to be diagnosed over the last 24 hours.
He also says rapid diagnostic tests are also being used in Kadavu and as such, the total number of cases under follow up in Kadavu is 273; 3 more than what is confirmed from Fiji CDC Data alluded to above.
Dr Fong says of these 142 cases have recovered from the disease, and 131 active cases remain under isolation.
Dr Fong also highlighted that the health risk assessment done on the active cases show that 83 cases were considered low risk, while 48 cases were in the moderate and high-risk categories, and are under close observation by the health team.
He says surveillance and testing continue at Vunibaka Settlement and Solevu Village on Malolo Island and movement restriction remains in force for the whole island.
2 new cases were identified in Solevu village bringing a total of 32 active cases on the island.
A 54 year old man was airlifted to Lautoka Hospital yesterday afternoon and assessed to have severe COVID. He is currently in stable condition.
Dr Fong says a 43 year old woman has tested positive for COVID-19 in Kese Village, Naviti Island in the last 24 hours.
Investigations suggest that the case is linked to the cases in Somosomo village.
There have been 1,102 new recoveries to report since the last update, which means that there are now 16,267 active cases. 5130 active cases are in the Central Division, 10,862 active cases in the Western Division, 5 active cases in the Northern Division (Nabouwalu and Macuata) and 270 active cases in the Eastern Division (all in Kadavu).
There have been 47,186 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021. We have recorded a total of 47,256 cases in Fiji since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 30,169 recoveries.
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