Media Release                                                                   

COVID-19 Update

5th February 2021

There have been 0 new cases of COVID-19 since the last update on February 3^rd.

There is 1 active border quarantine case and 1 historical border quarantine case, which were both announced on February 3^rd, admitted to the isolation ward at Lautoka hospital.

Fiji has had 56 cases in total, with 53 recoveries and 2 deaths, since our first case was reported on March 19^th 2020. The last 38 cases have been international travel associated cases detected in border quarantine. It has been 293 days since the last case was detected outside border quarantine on April 18^th 2020.

A total of 26,917 laboratory tests have been conducted, with a daily average of 157 tests per day over the last 7 days, and a weekly average of 1179 tests over the last 2 weeks.

For more information on COVID-19 in Fiji please visit the Ministry of Health and Medical Services web page http://www.health.gov.fj/covid-19-updates/

The next scheduled update will be on Monday February 8th.

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