The Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong has confirmed that Fiji has recorded 143 new cases of COVID-19 of which 76 are from the Western Division, 59 are from the Central Division and 8 from the Eastern Division.
Dr Fong says Kadavu recorded 8 new cases bringing the total number of cases to 463.
He says all villages remain on movement restrictions enforced by the Police and the Vanua, while the village of Tawava and the seven villages of Yale Tikina are on strict lockdown.
Dr Fong adds the outreach teams continue to visit the villages and communities undertaking to follow up of primary contacts, monitoring of positive patients and clearance, roll out of COVID-19 vaccination, maternal and child health clinic and vaccination, and consultation with medicine replenishment.
Dr Fong further says no new cases were recorded on Malolo Island in the last 24 hours and the 25 active cases remain stable. Daily surveillance and screening are ongoing for the villages, and movement restrictions remain in force for the island.
He also confirmed that Naviti Island also did not record any new cases in the last 24 hours. The 109 active cases remain under daily assessment while surveillance continues for the contacts and villagers in the seven settlements and villages. Movement restriction remains in force for the villages in the island.
Dr Fong says there have been 93 new recoveries to report since the last update, which means that there are now 13,407 active cases.
2,238 active cases are in the Central Division, 10,871 active cases in the Western Division, 5 active cases in the Northern Division and 293 active cases in Kadavu.
There have been 48,645 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021. We have recorded a total of 48,715 cases in Fiji since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 34,411 recoveries.
