The French government has decided to extend French Polynesia's health emergency status until mid-November because of the worsening Covid-19 pandemic.
Another 25 people died in the past 24 hours, bringing the number of fatalities to 353.
A spokesman said the National Assembly will have to approve the emergency powers for the French overseas territories which would otherwise lapse next month.
Latest figures show 378 people with Covid-19 are in hospital, 57 of them in intensive care.
For the first time, the daily update excluded the number of new infections, which on last count had breached the 40,000-mark for the pandemic.
Extra beds in the hall of the Taaone Hospital in Papeete. Covid-19 seemed to have almost disappeared from Tahiti between March and July. But with the Delta variant, it returned with unprecedented violence, saturating the Tahiti hospital centre within a month. Photo: AFP or licensors
However, an epidemiologist Jean-Marc Segalin has told a news conference that the territory now has 2,863 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, which is an incidence ten times higher than in mainland France.
He said of the hospitalised patients with Covid-19, 87.7 percent were not vaccinated, while 10.4 percent have had two jabs.
Dr Segalin said 13.6 percent of those people who died had been fully vaccinated.
He said the figures show that vaccinations provide some protection.
So far, 31 percent of the eligible population has been fully vaccinated.
Last year's second Covid-19 wave peaked in November when French Polynesia's infection rate was the highest outside Europe.
