6 deaths

Fiji’s COVID-19 death toll and new daily cases increase

The death toll in a day has also risen to six.

The youngest deceased is a 43-year old woman and the others are aged between 60 and 80.

According to the Ministry of Health, three people were not vaccinated and the remaining three had received their first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

There have now been 39 deaths due to COVID-19 in Fiji, with 37 of these deaths during the outbreak that started in April this year.

6 confirmed deaths, measles cases increase in Samoa

As of 11 November 2019 there have been 716 suspected or confirmed measles cases, an increase of 203 over the previous week.

The ministry says unfortunately there have been an additional three measles-related deaths, all young children, bringing the total of measles-related deaths to six.

Young children have been particularly hard hit, with 58% of cases being aged 4 years and under.

Over 40% of all cases have required admission to hospital, almost 90% of these to TTM Hospital.