COVID-19 new cases

The Ministry of Health in its latest Covid-19 situational report commencing from 29 June to 1 July 2022, confirmed 31 positive cases.

Of this number, there are 17 new community cases and 14 new imported cases detected at the airport, taking the total number of cases (community and border) to 14,995.

The number of positive cases detected at Faleolo International Airport increased during the monitoring period to 22 cases with 8 cases reported on the flight NZ990 on 26 June; 1 case on flight QF333 on 28 June; and 13 cases on flight FJ255 on 28 June.

Fourteen cases are in managed isolation and three critical cases are in ICU at the Moto’otua Hospital.

The Ministry of Health also confirmed two new Covid-19 related deaths within this reporting period, taking the total number of Covid-19 related deaths to twelve.

The deceased were an 80-year-old female and an 86-year-old male.

“Out of respect for the families and relatives, we will not be making any further comments.”

The Ministry is urging the public to get vaccinated as vaccination remains the best defense against the Covid-19 pandemic.

The National Emergency Operation Centre said the patients were part of the 170 passengers that arrived in the country on 6 March repatriation flight from New Zealand.

The cases are managed and controlled in quarantine.

The remaining 162 passengers who tested and returned negative PCR test results upon arrival are also placed in controlled quarantine.

All 127 high risk frontline workers went straight to quarantine after processing the flight and will remain there for up to 72 hours.

1,280 new cases of Covid-19 were reported last weekend, taking the total number of active cases to 4,429.

Health Secretary James Fong also confirmed the death toll is now 709.

Dr Fong said the five victims all died at home including a 27 year-old man.

Out of the 1,280 new cases, Dr Fong said 348 of them were recorded on 6 January, 320 on 7 January and 612 new cases in the last 24 hours ending at 8am on 5 January.

This brings the total number of active cases to 821 since this outbreak began in April this year.

There were no deaths reported in the latest update on Monday with the toll still at 679 since March 2020, 677 of them from April.

Fiji's Health Ministry says a total of 52,326 cases were recorded, with 71 percent from the Central Division, 28 percent from the west and 1 percent of the cases from the eastern and northern divisions.

Fiji's daily average is 17 cases.

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It is the largest number of cases in a single day since the latest outbreak began in April.

There were another five deaths which health authorities say have occurred over the past four days.

This follows Thursday's announcement of 10 additional deaths over the past week.

The death toll in Fiji has now reached 74.

The most recent deaths included four people in their sixties and a 78 year old - none of whom were vaccinated.

There are now 11,033 active cases with Fiji having recording nearly 14 thousand cases in the recent outbreak.

Both of these cases are recent arrivals from overseas and both were detected within managed isolation facilities.

The first case is the child of the couple whose cases were announced on Saturday. The second case is a 59-year-old woman who travelled from Delhi and arrived in Auckland on June 15 on flight AI1316. She travelled with her partner who has also been tested, but their result is pending.

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield reiterated in a statement on Sunday that new cases at New Zealand's border were always expected as Kiwis return home from overseas.

The city has seen more than 100 new cases in the fresh outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

For more than seven weeks Beijing had only registered cases from people travelling in from abroad.

New clusters of coronavirus are "always a concern", said Mike Ryan, the WHO's emergencies programme head.

"But what we do like to see is an immediate response to that and comprehensive set of measures," he added.

What do we know about the new cases?

The fresh outbreak has been linked to city's largest wholesale market, Xinfadi.