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14 additional COVID-19 deaths reported between 6th August & 19th September
32 new cases reported

14 additional COVID-19 deaths reported between 6th August & 19th September

32 new cases reported

By Rashika Kumar
16/11/2021

The Ministry of Health is reporting an additional 14 COVID-19 deaths between 6th August and 19th September, 2021.

Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says all deaths were reported from the Western Division and none of these people were vaccinated.

He says an analysis of the 14 deaths has highlighted that individuals were aged between 46 to 84 years.

57% were men.

Dr. Fong says 42% of the individuals died at home or on their way to the hospital.

There have been 694 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 692 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.

Since the last update on Friday, Fiji has recorded a total of 32 new cases of which 7 new cases were recorded on Saturday, 5 new cases were recorded on Sunday and 20 new cases in the last 24 hours that ended at 8am yesterday morning.

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