The Covid-19 outbreak in French Polynesia claimed another 17 lives since yesterday, raising the number of fatalities to 328.
Latest figures show another 1,061 infections were recorded in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number in the pandemic to more than 40,000.
Since yesterday, a further 16 people have been admitted to the territory's hospitals.
Altogether there are 365 Covid-19 patients in hospital, 53 of them are in intensive care and 39 of those are in Tahiti.
An ambulance enters the Taaone hospital in Papeete, the French overseas territory of Polynesia Photo: AFP
Hospitals are at capacity just six weeks after they had their first day 11 months without a patient with Covid-19.
Yesterday, more than 2,500 people had their first Covid-19 jab, raising the inoculation rate to close to 50 percent.
The Society Islands are in the first week of a two-week lockdown, and nightly curfews are in place to try to curb the spread of the virus.
Last Friday, the assembly passed a law, making vaccinations compulsory for medical staff, people in contact with the public and people deemed to be vulnerable.
The French overseas minister Sebastien Lecornu, who visited Tahiti with President Emmanuel Macron last month, has expressed his support for the measure, but added that the French policy was for vaccinations to remain voluntary.
Lecornu told La Depeche de Tahiti that in the long term, vaccination and not lockdowns will be the solutions to French Polynesia's Covid-19 outbreak, which he says is ten times more intense than in mainland France.
He said French Polynesia has the vaccines, the vaccination centres and the vaccinators but lacks those who want to be vaccinated.
