COVID-19 cases continue to rise drastically as 94 new cases confirmed

A new daily record of COVID-19 cases has been announced as 94 new cases have been confirmed.

Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong confirms 28 cases are from the CWM Hospital cluster, 8 from the Nawaka, Nadi cluster, 5 from the Navy cluster, 14 from the Navosai cluster, 26 from the Waila cluster, 9 from the Health Ministry’s Incident Management Team cluster, 3 from the RFMF cluster and 1 from the Caubati cluster.

2 cases that tested positive after presenting to Valelevu Health Centre are included in the CWM Hospital cluster as they had recently been discharged from the hospital.

Please note a cluster does not mean that all the cases are at CWM Hospital.

It means the source of the virus is from that cluster.

The Valelevu Health Centre is temporarily closed for decontamination.

Doctor Fong says a person who was admitted in the CWM Hospital’s Acute Medical Ward, died yesterday morning as a result of the medical condition for which he was initially admitted.

He says while the individual did test positive for COVID-19 during his admission at the hospital, they have not classified this as a COVID death based on the assessment of his doctors, who have determined that he died due to complications of his chronic medical condition.

The Ministry expresses their condolences to his family.

4 patients have recovered, which means there are now 604 active cases in isolation.

There have been 775 cases during the current outbreak that started in April 2021.

Fiji has recorded a total of 845 cases in Fiji since the first case was reported in March 2020.

We have had 234 recoveries, and 4 deaths due to COVID-19.

A total of 88,784 samples have been tested since this outbreak started in April 2021, with 129,205 tested since testing began in early 2020.