Fiji has to date administered a total of 318,830 first doses and 52,592 second doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
Ministry of Health permanent secretary Dr James Fong said that accounted for 54 per cent of the target population that had received at least one dose and 9 per cent now fully vaccinated nationwide.
He said a total of 1532 individuals were screened and 480 swabbed at stationary screening clinics in the last 24 hours, bringing the cumulative total to 245,323 individuals screened and 34,261 swabbed to date.
“Our mobile screening teams screened a total of 748 individuals and swabbed 596 in the last 24 hours. This brings our cumulative total to 673,110 individuals screened and 55,825 swabbed by our mobile teams to date,” Dr Fong said last night.
He has also advised members of the public 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.
