Permanent Secretary for Health, Dr James Fong has announced 126 new COVID-19 cases in the 24 hour period ending at 8am today, and one new death that could have been caused by the virus. He also reported an increase in new cases from the Lami area in Greater Suva. There have been 2020 cases since the outbreak started in April.
The inter-active map,
showing Lami and Suva
Dr Fong says an important part of the COVID-19 response was to use various technologies available to them, and these technologies were of immense benefit to their organizing of information for planning, implementation and deployment of their resources.
He says one such technology is the use of geospatial information, which greatly assisted his team in organizing the information collected from the ground and presented in a map that could be understood by the team and those on the ground.
He says they pleased to announce the launch of the COVID-19 Dashboard, where active cases in Fiji can now be viewed online using an interactive GIS Dashboard.
The Dashboard will give members of the public an interactive map that provides information on active cases and their locations.
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