A massive surge in COVID-19 cases have been recorded in French Polynesia in the last day.
Officials reported 2164 new cases and 13 deaths in the 24 hours to 8am Wednesday (local time).
There are 294 people currently in hospital, including 38 people in intensive care.
The territory now has 7213 active cases.
Since the start of the pandemic 32,705 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in French Polynesia and 224 people have died.
The vast majority occurred after the borders re-opened to tourism in July last year, but the Delta variant is responsible for the latest surge.
Vaccinations have reached 115,00 of the population of 283,000, with 85,000 people now fully vaccinated.
Source:
RNZ Pacific