No deaths have been recorded in Fiji as the Ministry of Health tonight reported 128 new positive cases of COVID-19 in the 24-hour period that ended at 8am today.

Ministry permanent secretary Dr James Fong said 90 cases were reported from the Western Division and 38 cases from the Central Division.

He says there have been 173 new recoveries to report since the last update, and there were now 12,814 active cases; 1474 active cases in the Central Division; 11,043 active cases in the Western Division; two active cases in the Northern Division (Macuata); and 295 active cases in the Eastern Division (all in Kadavu).

“We are currently reviewing and reconciling our active case database with recoveries and as a result, we expect the recovery numbers to intermittently change markedly as verifications are made,” Dr Fong said.

Dr Fong said there were two deaths of COVID-19 positive patients but their deaths were classified as non-COVID deaths by their doctors.

“There have now been 535 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 533 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.”

There have been 48,916 cases recorded during the outbreak that started in April 2021; and 48,986 in total recorded since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 35,272 recoveries.