No jab, no job – Fiji Government policy enforced through law
All employers and employees in Fiji's private sector and statutory bodies are to receive at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by 01...
Fiji records 721 new cases and six deaths reported
Fiji has reported 721 new positive COVID-19 cases and six deaths Thursday.
Ministry of Health and Medical Services permanent secretary Dr James Fong said the...
COVID death toll passes 4 million: Global Vaccine Plan essential, declares UN Chief Guterres
The global death toll due to COVID-19 officially passed four million late on Wednesday, marking yet another “grim milestone” and underlining the urgent need...
Fiji: A stricter lockdown and more government support needed
by Sunil Kumar
The daily rate of new COVID-19 infections in Fiji now exceeds 500 (as of 6 July 2021), much higher than India’s...
Fiji records 791 new COVID-19 cases ; three deaths reported
Fiji has reported 791 new positive COVID-19 cases and three deaths Wednesday.
Ministry of Health and Medical Services permanent secretary Dr James Fong said the...
COVID variants ‘winning the race against vaccines’ warns WHO chief
Variants like Delta are “currently winning the race against vaccines” said the World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday, pinning the...
iTaukei ‘top deaths’ – Dr Wilson: 20 indigenous Fijians have died from delta variant
More than 70 per cent of COVID-19 deaths in Fiji have been recorded for iTaukei persons.
This was highlighted by Fiji Institute of Pacific Health...
Tonga renews State of Emergency for a month, three COVID-19 tests now required in...
Tonga’s declaration of a State of Emergency due to COVID-19 has been renewed from 05 July to 02 August.
The Declaration of a State of...
Australia denies using ‘plants’ to undermine China’s Covid vaccine rollout in Pacific
The Australian government has denied undermining China’s plan to roll out Covid vaccines to Pacific countries after Beijing lashed Canberra’s purported “callous” and “irresponsible...
‘I’m always afraid’: Fiji reels as it moves from Covid haven to frontline
For most of the pandemic, when Fijians tuned in each night to updates from the country’s health experts, they were greeted with the same...
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