SUMMARY AND DISEASE BURDEN
- On 04 March 2022, an active COVID-19 case was confirmed at Vila Central Hospital who had no travel history, indicating transmission at community level.
- On 07 March 2022, Efate and Offshore Islands moved to Alert Level 3: Very High, due to large-scale community transmission. All provinces of Vanuatu are on Alert Level 3 given reports of cases or movement of contacts of cases in the six provinces of Vanuatu.
- A total of 2633 confirmed cases have been reported since the beginning of 2022.
- 105 new confirmed cases have been reported in the last 24 hours, including 104 Efate island (Shefa
province) and 1 Santo island (Sanma province) ** Note, the decrease in case numbers since yesterday
is due to decreased testing on weekends.Discrepancies with previous reports may result from lags in
data entry and reporting at a national and provincial level.**.