Ten more COVID-19 deaths have been recorded for the period between 2nd August and 20th October, 2021.
The Ministry of Health says nine deaths were reported from the Western Division and one from the Central Division.
The individuals were aged between 45 to 92 years.
All 10 individuals died at home or on their way to the hospital and 67% of these people were unvaccinated while the remaining 33% received only one dose of the vaccine.
It says nine of these deaths from August are reported today due to a delay in the issuance of the death certificates.
There have been 12 deaths of COVID-19 positive patients.
However, these deaths have been classified as non-COVID-19 deaths as patients died of serious pre-existing medical conditions.
There have been 673 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji. We have also recorded 559 COVID-19 positive patients who died from the serious medical conditions they had before they contracted COVID-19.
31 COVID-19 patients are currently admitted in the hospitals where one patient is in severe condition.
Meanwhile, 47 new COVID-19 cases have been recorded for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am yesterday.
There are currently 1,828 active cases.
Fiji has had a total of 51,907 cases since the second wave of the pandemic began in April.
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