SUVA — Fiji has transformed its largest hospital into an emergency Covid-only facility, as the country reported a record number of new cases and a surge in the quick-spreading Delta variant, first identified in India.
The South Pacific island nation went a full year without recording any new community cases until April, when it was hit by a second wave of infections.
Since then, numbers have steadily increased, with 83 new cases announced late Sunday, bringing the total to 489 active infections. The surge has posed a major challenge to Fiji’s under-developed health care system.
Permanent Secretary for Health James Fong said 11 of the new cases were from unknown so…
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