There are 127 new cases of COVID-19 in Fiji while 3 new COVID-19 deaths have been reported for the period of 10th to 12th September 2021.
Two deaths were reported for the Central Division and one death was reported from the Western Division.
The first COVID-19 death to report is a 60-year-old woman from Waya Island.
She presented to the Yalobi Nursing Station in severe respiratory distress.
Her family reported that she had a fever, sore throat and a cough one week prior to her presentation.
She was retrieved by a medical team and transferred to the Lautoka Hospital.
Sadly, she died 5 days after admission on Sunday.
She was not vaccinated.
The second COVID-19 death to report is an 81-year-old woman from Tailevu who died at home last Friday.
She was not vaccinated.
The third COVID-19 death to report is an 80-year-old man from Navua who died at home on Sunday.
He was not vaccinated.
There are 12,925 active cases of COVID-19.
1,503 active cases are in the Central Division, 11,117 active cases in the Western Division, 2 active cases in the Northern Division (Macuata) and 303 active cases in the Eastern Division (all in Kadavu).
There has been 1 more death of a COVID-19 positive patient.
However, this death has been classified as a non-COVID death by their doctors.
The doctors have determined that this death was caused by a serious pre-existing medical condition and not COVID-19.
There have now been 538 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 536 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
