Fiji's 7-day average of new COVID cases per day is a worrying 938 cases per day or 1060 cases per million population per day.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the daily case numbers remain high, and daily test positivity remains high, indicating ongoing widespread community transmission in the Suva-Nausori containment zone.
He says cases are also increasing in the West with evidence of community transmission in the division.
Doctor Fong says the West is also recording an increasing number of people with severe disease, and deaths in the West.
657 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am today.
256 cases are from the Western Division and 401 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.
You can check out the link on our website, fijivillage.
There have been 586 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 24,138 active cases.
19,005 active cases are in the Central Division and 5,133 in the West.
There have been 36,909 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded a total of 36,979 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 12,384 recoveries.
There are currently 240 COVID-19 patients admitted to hospital.
69 patients are admitted at the FEMAT Field Hospital, and 171 admitted at CWM Hospital, St Giles, and Makoi.
50 patients are considered to be in severe condition, and 5 are in critical condition.
The hospitalisation data update is pending from the Western Division.
294,860 samples have been tested since this outbreak started in April 2021, with 337,721 tested since testing began in March 2020.
1981 tests have been reported for August 6th.
Based on available data the national 7-day daily test average is 3010 tests per day or 3.4 tests per 1,000 population.
The national 7-day average daily test positivity is 31.3 %.
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