Fiji has reported 352 Covid-19 cases and three deaths in the last 24 hours ending at 8am today.
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The Health Ministry said all three were not vaccinated.
A 54-year-old man from Naikurukuru, Lami, was declared dead on arrival by the attending medical officer at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva.
"This means that he either died at home or on the way to the hospital," Health Secretary James Fong said.
"His family reported that the individual had been unwell for at least a week with fever, headache and generalised weakness."
Dr Fong said the second death was a 62-year-old woman from Davuilevu in Nausori who died at home.
He said the woman's family reported that she had fever, weakness and a reduced appetite for at least three days.
"The third Covid death is a 60-year-old woman from Vatuwaqa in Suva, who presented to the FEMAT field hospital in severe respiratory distress, and died on the same day."
Dr Fong said there have been two more deaths of Covid-positive patients.
But he said both deaths had been classified as non-Covid deaths by the doctors "as their deaths have been determined to be caused by pre-existing medical conditions."
On Sunday, the ministry reported a daily record 522 new cases and three deaths due to Covid-19.
The government has firmly resisted any suggestions of wide controls on people's movement in order to curtail the pandemic.
Workers say they are concerned for their safety but have no choice but to keep working.
Meanwhile, 54 percent of the target population of 650,000 have received one dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine while nine percent are now fully vaccinated.
Fiji facts
- 352 new cases
- 3 Covid-19 deaths in 24 hours to 8am today
- 33 deaths due to the Covid-19 recorded in Fiji
- 31 of those deaths recorded during the outbreak that started in April this year
- 15 covid-positive patients died from the serious medical conditions they had before they contracted the virus
- 78 new recoveries reported since the last update
- 5178 active cases in isolation
- 6443 cases recorded during the outbreak that started in April 2021
- 6513 cases recorded in Fiji since the first case was reported in March 2020
- 1287 recoveries