431 new cases, 2 new deaths

Leon Lord

Permanent Secretary for Health and Medical Services, Dr James Fong.

Yesterday, 431 new COVID-19 cases were announced together with two more deaths.

These new cases are from the Central and Western Divisions. A full breakdown of areas of interest has been published online on the Ministry’s COVID-19 dashboard and on the Fijian Government Facebook page.

Permanent Secretary for Health and Medical Services Dr James Fong said there were 24 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 22 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.

“We also have recorded 11 COVID-19 positive patients who died from conditions that they had before they contracted COVID-19,” he said.

“There have been 36 new recoveries reported since the last update, which means that there are now 3896 active cases in isolation.

“There have been 4779 cases during the outbreak that started in April 2021.

“We have recorded a total of 4849 cases in Fiji since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 918 recoveries.”

A total of 6282 individuals were screened and 1307 swabbed at the stationary screening clinics, bringing the cumulative total to 228,716 individuals screened and 31,000 swabbed to date.

Testing Update

A total of 159,939 samples have been tested since this outbreak started in April 2021, with 202,800 tested since testing began in early 2020. 3,015 tests have been reported for 29 June.

The national seven-day daily test average is 3027 tests per day or 3.4 tests per 1000 population.

The national seven-day average daily test positivity is 8.9 per cent and continues on an upward trend.

Vaccination Update

A total of 7,083 first doses and 1,275 second doses of the vaccine were administered nationally in the last 24 hours.

To date, 300,436 adults in Fiji have received their first dose of the vaccine and 48,503 have received their second doses. This means that 51 per cent of the target population have received at least one dose and 8.3 per cent are now fully vaccinated nationwide.

Fijians are reminded to check the Ministry’s vaccine dashboard to find real-time data on first-dose and second-dose numbers at the national, divisional and sub-divisional levels.

The seven-day average of new cases per day has increased to 285 cases per day or 305 cases per million population per day.

There has also been a notable increase in positive patients with severe disease, as well as an increase in deaths.

The steady increase in average daily case numbers in combination with other indicators suggest higher daily numbers of cases, hospitalisations, and deaths in the coming weeks, particularly in the Central and Western divisions.