{"id":921,"date":"2021-09-02T23:05:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T23:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=921"},"modified":"2021-09-02T23:05:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T23:05:02","slug":"fiji-covid-19-updates-kadavu-has-270-active-cases-of-covid-19-in-the-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"FIJI COVID-19 UPDATES: Kadavu has 270 active cases of Covid-19 in the island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>13 new cases of COVID-19 infections were recorded in Kadavu in the 24 hour period ending at 8 am yesterday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 632px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fbcnews.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/James-Fong-new-1280x720-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"350\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: FIJIAN GOVT (DR JAMES FONG)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There are now 270 active cases on the island.<\/p>\n<p>Two cases were also identified in Solevu village, Malolo.<\/p>\n<p>This includes a 54-year-old man who was airlifted to the Lautoka Hospital on Wednesday afternoon and assessed to have severe COVID.<\/p>\n<p>A 43-year-old woman from Kese Village in Naviti was also diagnosed with the virus.<\/p>\n<p>These cases were among the 250 new infections reported in Fiji\u00a0 yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>186 are from the Western Division and 51 from the Central Division<\/p>\n<p>There was one COVID-19 death to report.<\/p>\n<p>A 71-year-old unvaccinated woman from Nausori died after being presented to the CWM Hospital in severe respiratory distress.<\/p>\n<p>There have been<strong> four more deaths of COVID-19 positive patients<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, these deaths have been classified as non-COVID deaths by their doctors.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors have determined that these deaths were caused by a serious pre-existing medical condition.<\/p>\n<p>There have been <strong>1,102 new recoveries<\/strong> which mean there are now <strong>16,267 active cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday, <strong>560,940<\/strong> or<strong> 96%<\/strong> of adults in Fiji have received their first dose of the vaccine, and<strong> 278,131 or 48.4%<\/strong> have received their second doses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Via Fijian Government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 new cases of COVID-19 infections were recorded in Kadavu in the 24 hour period ending at 8 am yesterday. There are now 270 active cases on the island. Two cases were also identified in Solevu village, Malolo. This includes a 54-year-old man who was airlifted to the Lautoka Hospital on Wednesday afternoon and assessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-fiji-news","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}