Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong has announced 10 deaths from COVID-19 from 9th to 14th July and 634 new COVID cases for the 24 hour period that ended at 8am yesterday.
The first COVID-19 death is a 65-year-old woman from Naibitu Village who died at home on July 9th.
She received her 1st dose of the vaccine in mid-June.
She had not received the second dose of the vaccine and was not fully vaccinated.
The second COVID-19 death is a 62-year-old man from Cautata Village.
He presented to a medical facility in severe respiratory distress.
His condition worsened at the health facility and he died on the same day on 10th July.
He was not vaccinated.
The third COVID-19 death is an 80-year-old man from Suva who died at home on the 10th July.
His family reported that he was feeling unwell with shortness of breath. He was not vaccinated.
The fourth COVID-19 death is a 92-year-old man from Kinoya who died at home on 11th July.
His family reported that he reported of generalized weakness and a reduced appetite 3 days prior.
He was not vaccinated.
The fifth COVID-19 death is a 71-year-old woman from Suva.
She presented to a health centre with severe COVID-19 symptoms and was transferred to the CWM Hospital.
Her condition worsened in the hospital and she died 2 days after her admission on 11th July.
She was not vaccinated.
The sixth COVID-19 death is a 62-year-old woman from Makoi who died at home on 11th July.
Her family reported that she had a cough, fever and shortness of breath for a few days.
She was not vaccinated.
The seventh COVID-19 death is a 59-year-old man from Nadera who died at home on 12th July.
His family reported that he had a cough, shortness of breath and a reduced appetite.
He was not vaccinated.
The eighth COVID-19 death is a 63-year-old woman from Nasinu.
She presented to the CWM Hospital in severe respiratory distress and died one day after admission on 13th July.
She was not vaccinated.
The ninth COVID-19 death is a 58-year-old woman from Nadera.
She presented to the CWM Hospital in severe respiratory distress and died 10 days after admission on 13th July.
She was not vaccinated.
The tenth COVID-19 death is a 42-year-old woman from Tacirua.
A Medical Response team retrieved her from home and transferred her to a medical facility.
She was noted to be in severe respiratory distress.
She died in the medical facility on the same day on 14th July.
She received her 1st dose of the vaccine at the end of June.
She had not received the second dose of the vaccine and was not fully vaccinated.
Please note you only have 92% efficacy of the vaccine 14 days after the second dose and this drastically reduces the risk of severe cases, hospitalisation or death.
Doctor Fong says there have been two more deaths of COVID-19 positive patients.
However, their deaths have been classified as non-COVID deaths by their doctors.
Doctors have determined that these deaths were caused by serious pre-existing medical conditions and not COVID-19.
There have now been 69 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 67 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.
Doctor Fong says they have also recorded 29 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 314 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 10,033 active cases.
There have been 12,596 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.
Fiji has recorded a total of 12,666 cases since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 2,535 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.
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