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COVID-19 Update

March 17th, 2021

There are 0 new cases of COVID-19 to report in this update.

It has been 10 days since the last border quarantine case was reported. There have been 3 new recoveries, leaving 1 active border quarantine case currently admitted at the Lautoka hospital isolation unit.

It has been 333 days since the last case was detected outside border quarantine on April 18^th, 2020.

Fiji has had 66 cases in total, with 63 recoveries and 2 deaths, since our first case was reported on March 19^th, 2020. The last 48 cases have been international travel-associated cases detected in border quarantine.

A total of 34,346 COVID-19 laboratory tests have been conducted, with a daily average of 248 tests per day over the last 7 days, and a weekly average of 1615 tests per week over the last 2 weeks.

There are currently 949 people who have recently arrived from overseas undergoing mandatory 14-day quarantine in government-supervised border quarantine facilities.

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 Friday, March 19th.

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