There have been 13 more deaths of COVID-19 positive patients.

Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fong says these deaths have been classified as non-COVID deaths by their doctors.

He says the doctors have determined that these deaths were caused by a serious pre-existing medical condition and not COVID-19.

Doctor Fong says Fiji has also recorded 526 COVID-19 positive patients who died from the serious medical conditions that they had before they contracted COVID-19; these are not classified as COVID-19 deaths.

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