There are 5 new COVID-19 deaths from August 10th to 12th while 398 new COVID cases have been announced.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says three deaths were reported from the Central Division and two deaths were from the Western Division.
The first COVID-19 death is a 91-year-old woman from Navua who died at home on 10th August. She was not vaccinated.
The second death is an 86 year old woman from Rakiraki. She was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Rakiraki Hospital on 10th August. She was not vaccinated.
The third COVID-19 death is a 30-year-old man from Ba. He was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Ba Mission Hospital on 10th August. He was not vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says the fourth death is a 71-year-old man from Naitasiri who died at home on 11th August..His family reported that he had a cough and fever two days prior. He was not vaccinated.
The fifth COVID-19 death is a 76-year-old man from Naitaisiri who died at home on 12th August. He was not vaccinated.
There have been 8 more deaths of COVID-19 positive patients. However, these deaths have been classified as non-COVID deaths by their doctors.
Doctors have determined that their deaths were caused by serious pre-existing medical conditions and not COVID-19.
With today’s newly reported deaths, there have now been 345 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 343 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 9.
The 7 day rolling average of COVID-19 deaths per day in the Central Division is 6 deaths and the Western Division is 3 deaths.
We also have recorded 185 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.
To date, no one in Fiji has died due to COVID-19 after they have been fully vaccinated.
Of the 398 new cases, 254 cases are from the Western Division and 144 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.
There have been 703 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 23,981 active cases.
17,999 active cases are in the Central Division and 5,982 active cases in the Western Division.
There have been 38,742 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
We have recorded a total of 38,812 cases in Fiji since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 14,301 recoveries.
The 7-day average of new COVID cases per day is 561 cases per day or 634 cases per million population per day.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says they have noted a drop in cases reported per day recently however, their daily testing numbers have also been dropping around the same time, due to the change in testing policy in Suva-Nausori.
As announced on July 21st by the Permanent Secretary, only persons that have a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 are being targeted for testing in Suva-Nausori.
This was done so that resources could be targeted to early detection, monitoring and care of persons with COVID-19 who are at higher risk of severe disease, to prevent more people succumbing to severe disease and death.
There are currently 291 COVID-19 patients admitted to the hospital.
72 patients are admitted to the Lautoka Hospital, 60 patients are admitted at the FEMAT Field Hospital, and 159 are admitted at CWM Hospital, St Giles, and Makoi.
67 patients are considered to be in severe condition, and 14 are in critical condition.
301,011 samples have been tested since this outbreak started in April 2021, with 343,872 tested since testing began in March 2020.
The national 7-day average daily test positivity is 34.5%.
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