Fiji seals off major hospital and quarantines hundreds after Covid death

Hospital closure comes as the Pacific country tries to contain a second wave of the virus with lockdowns

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Fiji has closed its second largest hospital amid fears that a patient who died of Covid-19 may have infected multiple staff members. The 53-year-old man was only the Pacific country's third Covid-related death since the pandemic began.

More than 400 patients, doctors, nurses and other medical staff were being quarantined at Lautoka hospital as of Wednesday, after a doctor who had treated the man also tested positive for the coronavirus.