There are 23 new COVID-19 deaths from August 11th to 15th - with 20 of these deaths from the Western Division and 3 deaths from the Central Division.
The first COVID-19 death is a 66 year old woman from Suva who died at home on 15th August. She received the 1st dose of the vaccine in late-June. She did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The second death is a 52 year old woman from Sigatoka. She was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Sigatoka Sub-Divisional Hospital. She was not vaccinated.
The third death is an 81 year old man from Ba. He presented to the Ba Mission Hospital in severe respiratory distress. He died on the same day on 13th August. He was not vaccinated.
The fourth COVID-19 death is a 73 year old man from Lautoka. He presented to the Lautoka Hospital in severe respiratory distress. He died two days after admission on 13th August. He received the 1st dose of the vaccine in late-July. He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The fifth death is a 62 year old man from Lautoka. He presented to the Lautoka Hospital in severe respiratory distress. He died four days after admission on 12th August. He received the 1st dose of the vaccine in early-May. He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The sixth COVID-19 death is an 85 year old woman from Ba. She presented to the Ba Mission Hospital in severe respiratory distress. She was transferred from the Ba Mission Hospital to the Lautoka Hospital. She died two days after admission on 13th August. She received the 1st dose of the vaccine in late-July. She did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The seventh death is a 77 year old woman from Lautoka. She was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Lautoka Hospital Emergency Department. She received the 1st dose of the vaccine in late-July. She did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The eighth COVID-19 death is a 63 year old woman from Lautoka. She presented to the Lautoka Hospital in severe respiratory distress. She died one day after admission on 13th August. She received the 1st dose of the vaccine in early-August. She did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The ninth.death is a 78 year old man from Lautoka. He was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Lautoka Hospital Emergency Department. He was not vaccinated.
The tenth COVID-19 death is a 59 year old woman from Ba. She presented to the Ba Mission Hospital in severe respiratory distress. She died two days after her admission on 15th August. She received her 1st dose of the vaccine in early-June. She did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The eleventh COVID-19 death is a 75 year old man from Tavua. He presented to the Tavua Hospital in severe respiratory distress. He died sixteen days after his admission on 14th August. He was not vaccinated.
The twelfth death is an 86 year old man from Tavua. He was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Tavua Hospital. He was not vaccinated.
The thirteenth death is a 77 year old woman from Nadi. She was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Nadi Hospital. She was not vaccinated.
The fourteenth death is an 84 year old man from Sigatoka. He presented to the Sigatoka Hospital in severe respiratory distress. He died five days after admission on 14th August. He received the first dose of the vaccine in late-July. He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The fifteenth COVID-19 death is a 79 year old man from Sigatoka. He presented to the Sigatoka Hospital in severe respiratory distress. He died five days after admission on 15th August. He was not vaccinated.
The sixteenth COVID-19 death is an 81 year old man from Sigatoka. He was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Sigatoka Hospital. He received the first dose of the vaccine in late-July. He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The seventeenth death is a 62 year old man from Sigatoka. He was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Sigatoka Hospital. He received the first dose of the vaccine in mid-June. He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The eighteenth death is a 46 year old woman from Sigatoka. She was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Sigatoka Hospital. She was not vaccinated.
The nineteenth COVID-19 death is a 43 year old man from Nadi. He presented to the Nadi Hospital in severe respiratory distress. He died on the same day on 15th August. He received the 1st dose of the vaccine in late-June. He did not receive the second dose of the vaccine.
The twentieth COVID-19 death is a 70 year old woman from Tacirua who died at home on 14th August. She was not vaccinated.
The twenty-first death is a 56 year old man from Tailevu who died at home on 13th August. He was not vaccinated.
The twenty-second death is a 65 year old man from Ba who died at home on 13th August. He was not vaccinated.
The twenty-third death is a 74 year old man from Nadi who died at home on 12th August. He was not vaccinated.
With today’s newly reported deaths, there have now been 394 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 392 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
The national 7 day rolling average of COVID-19 deaths per day is 8.
The 7 day rolling average of COVID-19 deaths in the Central Division is 5 and in the Western Division is 3.
We also have recorded 208 COVID-19 positive patients who died from the serious medical conditions that they had before they contracted COVID-19; these are not classified as COVID-19 deaths.
Of the 350 new COVID cases, 242 cases are from the Western Division and 108 cases are from the Central Division.
There have been 1,650 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 22,494 active cases.
15,692 active cases are in the Central Division, 6,801 active cases in the Western Division and 1 active case in the Northern Division.
There have been 40,517 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded a total of 40,587 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 17,491 recoveries.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says as a precautionary measure, an area of restricted movement has been initiated within Nabouwalu in Vanua Levu for the next 14 days.
This follows the COVID-19 positive case at Nabouwalu Wharf over the weekend.
The containment area will extend from Raralevu-i-Cake to Wainisevu and along the coast of Nabouwalu Village.
Doctor Fong says the two checkpoints maintained in the containment will be checkpoint one opposite the Nabouwalu Market controlling movement into the main road that runs into the containment area and checkpoint two at Raralevu-I-cake past Nabouwalu Village towards Wainunu.
He says the objectives of this containment zone protocol is to facilitate heightened community surveillance, conduct more contacts tracing, escalate our COVID Safe community engagement program and to implement a program to increase vaccination coverage in targeted areas throughout the Nabouwalu Containment Zone.
Movement into and out of the containment area will be restricted to facilitate essential service provision and access to groceries and post office services.
The office of the Provincial Administrator and Subdivisional Medical Teams have been carrying out community awareness on other specific movement restriction protocols and will continue this awareness exercise throughout the day tomorrow.
Doctor Fong says for health services, the Northern health team is setting up clinic sites at the Solevu Immaculate Conception Junior Secondary School, the Bua Nursing Station, and the Lekutu Health Centre to cater for the health needs of those living outside the containment area.
Nabouwalu Hospital will be used by the health teams for emergency care only.
He confirms contact tracing has identified 33 primary contacts and 70 secondary contacts of the case from Nabouwalu Wharf.
All contacts have tested negative for COVID-19 so far and remain under quarantine.
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