Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong has confirmed 2 new COVID-19 deaths for 31st July and 632 new cases.
The first COVID-19 death is a 35-year-old man from Newtown who died at home on 31st July. He was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the second death is a 55-year-old man from Ba.
He presented to a medical facility in severe respiratory distress.
A medical team retrieved him from the medical facility and took him to the Lautoka Hospital. His condition worsened in the hospital and he died 4 days after admission.
His family reported that he had generalized body pain, a cough and shortness of breath four days prior to his presentation.
He received the first dose of the vaccine in mid-July. He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
Doctor Fong says there was an error in yesterday’s daily statement where 238 total deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji were reported, when it should have been 239 deaths, with 237 during the outbreak that started in April this year.
This has been corrected.
With today’s newly reported deaths, there have now been 241 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 239 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
The 7 day rolling average of COVID deaths per day is 8.
The MOH has also recorded 130 COVID-19 positive patients who died from the serious medical conditions that they had before they contracted COVID; these are not classified as COVID-19 deaths.
Of the 632 new cases reported, 62 cases are from the Western Division and 570 cases are from the Central Division.
A full breakdown of areas of interest will be published online tonight on the Ministry’s COVID-19 dashboard.
You can check out the link on our website, fijivillage.
Meanwhile there have been 237 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 22,100 active cases.
18,906 active cases are in the Central Division and 3,194 in the West.
All cases that were recorded in the Northern and Eastern Divisions (cases that were imported from Viti Levu) have recovered and there are no active cases currently in those divisions.
There have been 30,343 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded 30,413 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 7,942 recoveries.
The 7-day average of new COVID-19 cases per day for Fiji is a worrying 1039 cases per day or 1174 cases per million population per day.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says daily case numbers remain high, and daily test positivity remains high, indicating ongoing widespread community transmission in the Suva-Nausori Containment Zone.
He says cases are also increasing in the West with evidence of community transmission in that division.
The Northern and Eastern Divisions currently have no active cases.
Meanwhile there are currently 307 COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital.
28 patients are admitted at Lautoka hospital.
In Suva, 79 patients are admitted at the FEMAT Field Hospital, and 200 admitted at CWM Hospital, St Giles, and Makoi.
59 patients are considered to be in severe condition, and 9 are in critical condition.
A total of 273,497 samples have been tested since this outbreak started in April 2021, with 316,358 tested since testing began in March 2020.
Based on available data the national 7-day daily test average is 3235 tests per day or 3.7 tests per 1,000 population.
The national 7-day average daily test positivity is 32.3 percent.
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