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Pregnant women’s deaths highlight severity of COVID outbreak in Fiji
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Fiji had initially been a COVID-19 containment success story, avoiding widespread outbreaks for the first year of the pandemic. Then the Delta variant appeared in April, and now the island nation has the world’s highest number of infections per capita.
Shirleen Ali, CARE’s Gender and Resilience Advisor in Fiji, said:
“Over the past month we’ve seen a tidal wave of COVID-19 cases here in Fiji. Fear is growing, but some people are still not taking the virus seriously and are gathering in large groups, for example to drink kava or alcohol.
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