To date, 593,042 adults in Fiji have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 460,081 have received their second doses.
This means 95.9% of adults have received at least one dose and 74.4% are now fully vaccinated nationwide.
Vaccination for children resumes tomorrow.
The Health Ministry will be posting a list of vaccination sites today.
As of 24th September, 17,996 children have received their first dose of the Moderna vaccine.
Fiji has 38 new cases of COVID-19 for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am yesterday.
There are now 12,875 active cases.
The Health Ministry says there have been 51,098 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded a total of 51,168 cases in Fiji since the first case was reported in March 2020.
The Health Ministry says they have one COVID-19 death to report.
The one COVID-19 death was reported from the Central Division.
It is an 82-year-old man from Suva.
He presented to the CWM Hospital in respiratory distress.
Sadly, he died 3 days after admission on Friday.
He was not vaccinated.
There has been one death of a COVID-19 positive patient.
However, this death has been classified as non-COVID death by their doctors.
The doctors have determined that these deaths were caused by a serious pre-existing medical condition and not COVID-19.
There have now been 632 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji.
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