Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says Fiji has now recorded a total of 12,032 COVID-19 cases and 59 deaths since the first case last year.
647 new cases of COVID-19 and 1 COVID-19 death have been confirmed for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am yesterday.
The COVID-19 death is a 58-year-old man from Delaivalelevu who died at home.
His family reported that he had been feeling unwell for 1 week.
He received his 1st dose of the vaccine in mid-June.
He had not received the second dose of the vaccine and was not fully vaccinated.
Doctor Fong says there has been one more death of a COVID-19 positive patient.
However, the death has been classified as a non-COVID death by doctors.
Doctors have determined that this death was caused by a serious pre-existing medical condition and not COVID-19.
There have now been 59 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 57 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
We also have recorded 27 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.
There have been 230 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 9,725 active cases.
There have been 11,962 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Doctor Fong says we have recorded a total of 12,032 cases in Fiji since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 2,221 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.
362,969 adults in Fiji have received their first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine and 68,819 have received their second doses.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says this means that 61.9 percent of the target population have received at least one dose and 11.7 percent are now fully vaccinated nationwide.
Meanwhile, the 7-day average of new cases per day is 698 cases per day or 788 cases per million population per day.
Doctor Fong says with daily increases in cases we are also seeing increasing cases of severe COVID-19 and increasing deaths.
He says sadly, people with severe COVID-19 are still dying at home or they are coming to a medical facility in the late stages of severe illness.
Doctor Fong stresses that severe COVID-19 is a medical emergency, and a delay in receiving appropriate medical treatment reduces your chance of recovering from the disease.
He says severe symptoms of COVID-19 include difficulty breathing, persistent pain or pressure in the chest, severe headache for a few days, new confusion, inability to wake or stay awake; and pale, gray, or blue-coloured skin, lips or nail beds.
If you or a loved one have any of these symptoms please go immediately to your nearest medical facility or call 165 if unable to get to a medical facility.
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