COVID-19

More infections recorded in Muanikoso and Nawaka

May 31, 2021 8:48 pm

There is a total of 32 COVID-19 cases after nine more infections were recorded last night.

After the earlier 23 announced for yesterday and six from the previous night, the latest nine consists of five from Muanikoso, Nasinu and four from the Nawaka, Nadi.

This means  we have had 38 cases in the past 24 hours.

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Fiji now has 267 active cases with 252 of these cases from the Lami-Suva containment zone, and 15 cases from Nadi.

The Health Ministry says two of the active cases in Suva are considered to be severe cases.

Fiji has had 438 cases in total since our first case was reported in March 2020, with 167 recoveries and 4 deaths.

There have been 368 cases since this outbreak started in April 2021.

 65,877 COVID-19 laboratory tests have been conducted during this current outbreak, with 108,738 conducted in total since testing started in early 2020.

This does not yet include the 11,000 samples recently tested in Australia.

A total of 2475 samples were tested on Sunday. The daily average of testing over the last seven days is 2630 tests per day.

At the national level, an average of three test per 1000 population has been conducted over the last even days.

The seven- day average daily test positivity is now 1.1%.