47 new COVID-19 cases yesterday - 19 of these are from the CWM Hospital cluster and 15 are from the Nawaka Nadi cluster

Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong has confirmed there are 47 new COVID-19 cases yesterday - 19 of these are from the CWM Hospital cluster and 15 are from the Nawaka Nadi cluster.

Doctor Fong says 42 of the new cases are linked to existing clusters.

3 are from the Health Ministry’s Incident Management Team cluster, 1 from the Waila cluster, 1 from the Muanikoso cluster, 1 from the Navy cluster and another 2 cases from the Reservoir Road cluster.

1 case from Wailoku, 1 from Wainibuka, 1 from Tacirua and 1 from Davuilevu Housing are under investigation.

Doctor Fong says 1 case is noted to be a primary contact of an existing case.

The contact tracing team are to confirm the cluster link.

Doctor Fong also says a review of cases from Nadi reported this week has found that 3 cases tested positive twice, and were subsequently counted twice, due to errors with the identifying information that was entered for each test.

The 3 duplicate records have been removed from the active and total case count.

26 patients have recovered, which means there are now 702 active cases in isolation.

There have been 944 cases during this outbreak that started in April 2021.

Fiji has recorded a total of 1,014 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020.

There have been 304 recoveries and 4 deaths due to COVID-19.

A total of 4 COVID-19 positive patients have died from pre-existing non-COVID-19 related illnesses.

104,533 samples have been tested since this outbreak started in April 2021, with 147,394 tested since testing began in early 2020.