Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 24 Apr 2022, 07:23 am Print
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The South Pacific nation of the Cook Islands on Saturday registered its first death due to COVID-19.
“It is with great sadness that I announce that we have recorded our first in-country death attributed to Covid-19,” Prime Minister Mark Brown said in a statement issued on the official Facebook page.
“The deceased was a 63-year-old woman on the island of Aitutaki. She had had all three anti-covid vaccinations, but also had several serious underlying health conditions," the PM said.
The deceased had been sick for three days at home and had declined to see a doctor or go to the hospital until the family made an emergency call to Aitutaki hospital just before midnight last night.
The woman stopped breathing in the ambulance enroute to the hospital and was unable to be revived, read the Facebook post.
Cook Islands has so far registered 4727 COVID-19 cases.
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