1 COVID-19 death and 131 new cases

1 COVID-19 death and 131 new cases
Navua Hospital - [File Photo]

There are 131 new cases of COVID-19 and one new COVID-19 death.

The one death reported is from the Central Division.

He is a 63-year-old man who presented to the Navua Hospital in severe respiratory distress and died on the same day on Sunday.

He received the 1st dose of the vaccine in mid-August.

This man did not receive the second dose of the vaccine which means that he was not fully vaccinated.

63 of the new cases are from the Western Division, 66 new cases are from the Central Division and 2 new cases are from the Eastern Division.

There are now 12,951 active cases.

1,480 active cases are in the Central Division, 11,164 active cases in the Western Division, 2 active cases in the Northern Division (Macuata), and 305 active cases in the Eastern Division (all in Kadavu).

There have been 49,174 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.

Fiji has recorded a total of 49,244 cases in Fiji since the first case was reported in March 2020.

There have now been 539 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 537 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.

Fiji has also recorded 366 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.

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