Ex-Ante Evaluation (for Japanese ODA Loan)Covid-19 Crisis Response Emergency Support Loan • July 6th, 2022
Contract Type FiledJuly 6th, 2022In March 2020, the first COVID-19 infection case was confirmed in the Republic of Fiji (Fiji), but since April 2020, there had been no new infection cases confirmed, due to swift responses such as the suspension of international flights and lockdowns, including the capital city of Suva. However, in mid-April of 2021, the first new cases of community-acquired infection in one year were confirmed. After that, the infection explosively spread in the country, and when it peaked in late July of the same year, some 7 thousands new cases were confirmed in one week, but as of June 2022, the spread of infection was subsiding, with the number of confirmed cases kept at around 20-30 persons per week. According to Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MoHMS) in Fiji, the cumulative numbers of confirmed cases and deaths in the same month were approximately 65 thousands and 8.6 hundreds, respectively.