Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong says there were no COVID deaths to report yesterday, however, there are 2 deaths currently under investigation.
Dr Fong says as of August 31st, the national 7 day rolling average of COVID-19 deaths per day is 4. The 7 day rolling average for COVID-19 deaths per day in the Central Division is 1 and in the Western Division is 3.
He says there have now been 508 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 506 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
Dr Fong also confirmed 156 new cases of COVID-19 for the 24 hour period that ended at 8 am yesterday.
79 cases are from the Western Division, 73 cases are from the Central Division and 4 cases are from the Eastern Division.
Dr Fong says there are 4 new COVID-19 positive cases in Kadavu and 13 new COVID-19 positive cases in Naviti, Yasawa Islands. All these individuals have been isolated.
There are now 15,997 active cases. 4,522 active cases are in the Central Division, 11,164 active cases in the Western Division, 4 active cases in the Northern Division (Macuata), and 307 active cases in the Eastern Division (all in Kadavu).
566,285 adults in Fiji have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 300,039 have received their second doses.
Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong says this means that 96.5% of the target population have received at least one dose and 51.1% are now fully vaccinated nationwide.
Dr Fong says they are currently doing a mop up exercise of their first dose campaign, which will allow them to specifically target communities with low coverage, and re-look at certain subdivisions that are generating coverage rates beyond 100%.
He adds this will allow them to correct and update the total eligible population for their current vaccination program.
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