Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong has announced 485 new cases of COVID-19 and 3 COVID deaths for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am yesterday.
Doctor Fong says the first COVID-19 death is a 77-year-old woman from Colo-I-Suva who died at home.
Her family reported that she had been feeling unwell for 3 days.
She was not vaccinated.
The second COVID-19 death is a 75-year-old man from Nabua who died at home.
His family reported that he was feeling unwell for 3 days.
He was noted to have a reduced appetite and generalized weakness.
He was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the third COVID-19 death is a 38-year-old woman from Nakasi.
A Ministry response team attended to her at a medical facility and transferred her to the CWM Hospital after she reported having severe symptoms of COVID-19.
Her condition worsened in hospital and she died 4 days after admission.
She was not vaccinated.
There have now been 55 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 53 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
Doctor Fong says they also have recorded 21 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.
1 death of a COVID-19 positive patient remains under investigation.
As of the 9th July the 7-day rolling average of deaths per day is 3.
There have been 162 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 8,576 active cases.
There have been 10,442 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded a total of 10,512 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 1,859 recoveries.
A full breakdown of areas of interest has been published online on the Ministry’s COVID-19 dashboard.
You can check out the link on our website, fijivillage.
195,695 samples have been tested since this outbreak started in April 2021, with 238,520 tested since testing began in early 2020.
The national 7-day average daily test positivity is 17.4% and continues on an upward trend.
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