291 articles tagged "covid-19-vaccine"
The Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong has highlighted that they are careful of the quality control for vaccines and if one batch does not look good or breaches their cold chain parameters, it is entirely remo
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign starts in Lami today. Health Ministry teams will be at Tikaram Park in Lami from 9 o'clock this morning. They will be there until 4 o'clock this afternoon. This is for t
If you are not vaccinated, you are not safe. This has been stressed by TISI Sangam President Sadasivan Naicker who says people should not believe in the false rumours regarding the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccin
Minister for Health Doctor Ifereimi Waqainabete says no one will be forced to take the vaccine however more people will be protected if more people receive the vaccine. While speaking on the Bula Ko Lau facebook l
The Director of the Fiji Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission Ashwin Raj says any consideration about mandatory vaccination as a precondition for employment must take knowledge of our existing laws in relatio
The President of the Fiji Law Society, Wylie Clarke says the right of individual employees to choose not to be vaccinated has to be balanced against the rights of others who may share space with that person and the lega
Australia has so far provided Fiji with 180,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines in the past 5 weeks. This is part of the 1 million vaccines that Australia has pledged to provide Fiji. Australian High Commiss
The Head of the Vaccination Taskforce of the Health Ministry, Doctor Rachel Devi says the COVID-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca that is being received by Fijians has undergone numerous tests and studies, and it has been develop
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, under pressure to aggressively address the global coronavirus vaccine shortage, will announce as early as Thursday that his administration will buy 500 million doses of the Pfizer-Bi
The investigation file into the alleged claims of questioning the legality of the COVID-19 vaccination by a lecturer is with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for independent legal advice. Acting Po
220,437 people in the country have received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, AstraZeneca while 4,773 have received their second doses. While speaking on our Straight Talk program on COVID-19, Head of the
People in the greater Nadera, Nadawa and Laqere areas are still turning-up to get vaccinated today. It is the third day of the vaccine rollout in these areas this week. We saw people following the COVID-safe p
The Health Ministry confirms their contact tracing investigations have identified several of their vaccination personnel as secondary contacts of an earlier-announced COVID-19 case in Nadi. As a result, the rollou
The 500,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines provided by New Zealand is expected to arrive within the next three months. New Zealand will also be donating around $3 million to support vaccine preparednes
The Health Ministry says they have administered 136,247 AstraZeneca doses so far. Permanent Secretary, Doctor James Fong says they have administered 36,885 vaccinations from 24th to 29th May – 33,077 first doses
The Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has highlighted if people do not get vaccinated, the economy will not reopen, people cannot go back to work or their businesses and resume life as normal. Bainimarama says they
Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine is "highly effective" in adolescents aged 12 to 17. BBC News reports no cases of COVID-19 were seen in a trial involving 3,732 young volunteers who received two doses of the vaccin
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the Suva and Nausori Containment Zones will continue today. It will start at 9am and finish at 4.30pm. This is for the first dose of the vaccine. Please no
Residents in the greater Nasinu and Nausori areas turned up in numbers at active COVID vaccination stations yesterday. The Health Ministry says it recorded a high uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine. Kinoya residen
Residents in the greater Nasinu and Nausori areas turned up in numbers at active COVID vaccination stations yesterday. The Health Ministry says it recorded a high uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine. Kinoya residen
