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1 COVID-19 death and 22 new cases

1 COVID-19 death and 22 new cases

By Semi Turaga
05/10/2021
[image: Ministry for Health COVID-19 Dashboard.]

Fiji has 22 new cases of COVID-19 to report for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am yesterday.

There are now 8,898 active cases.

Fiji has one new COVID-19 death to report.

The COVID-19 death has been reported from the Central Division.

It is a 58-year-old man from Suva who died at home on 1st October.

He was not vaccinated.

There have been 10 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 634 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 632 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.

Click for the full COVID-19 update.

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