3,658 articles tagged "covid-19"
More than 40 businesses in Nadi have closed so far because of COVID-19 while some shops are now getting into businesses like restaurants and hair salons. Nadi Chamber of Commerce President Dr Ram Raju says they hav
About 15 businesses in Sigatoka Town have closed and more are showing signs of closure by the end of the year, four businesses have changed their business activity while entire villages have lost their source of income
Women and girls in Fiji and in the Pacific demonstrate resilience on a daily basis but COVID-19 and the recent Tropical Cyclone Harold, and the social and economic impacts of dual disasters have tested their resilience.
Fiji has a new border quarantine case of COVID-19. With this new case, Fiji has six active border quarantine cases, all of whom are being treated in isolation at either the Nadi or Lautoka hospitals. Acting Pe
India has recorded more than 90,000 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, taking its total above that of Brazil. The country now has the second-largest number of confirmed cases in the world, 4.2 million.
Paris Saint Germain winger Kylian Mbappe will miss France's Nations League game against Croatia and PSG’s season opener after testing positive for COVID-19. Seven PSG players have tested positive in the last week
Australia says it will secure almost 85 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine if two promising trials prove successful. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the country had struck two deals that would allow free dos
A transgender father who has just given birth to a baby has made medical history twice. Maaike contracted COVID-19 from his partner when he was nine months' pregnant. When he gave birth to his baby in March, h
A strict lockdown in the Australian city of Melbourne has been extended by two weeks, with officials saying that the new COVID-19 cases had not dropped enough. Victoria State Premier Daniel Andrews says the restric
There have been five new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand four of which are from the community and one in managed isolation. The New Zealand Health Ministry says the four community cases were all linked t
Australian police have made dozens of arrests amid anti-lockdown protests attended by hundreds nationwide. In Melbourne, the centre of Australia's outbreak, about 300 people marched in defiance of tough measures th
Two male Fijian citizens are new COVID-19 border quarantine cases. Acting Permanent Secretary for Health and Medical Services Dr. James Fong says the two arrived in repatriation flight GA7280 from New Delhi to Fiji
There are five new cases of coronavirus in New Zealand with three in the community and the other two are imported cases discovered in managed isolation. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that alert level
German-based Travel agency TourLane has ranked Fiji as the safest place to travel when borders open. The guide, produced by TourLane looks at indicators such as COVID-19 cases, health regulation, population density
Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson says that he and his family had all contracted COVID-19. The former wrestler, who is now the world's highest-paid actor, said he, his wife and two daughters caught the virus despite being
Australia’s hot spot Victoria state today extended its state of emergency for another six months as its weekly average of new COVID-19 infections dipped to 95. The Victorian Parliament’s upper chamber passed le
There have been at least 6,002,615 cases of coronavirus in the United States and at least 183, 203 people have died, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins University recorded the first
A 25 year old female nurse is a new COVID-19 border quarantine case for Fiji however Acting Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong confirms the nurse was not exposed to the members of the public. Doctor
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has reported 14 new cases of COVID-19, five of them are in the community. It says two cases are household contacts of previously reported cases, and the other three are all in a hou
The US has now surpassed six million cases of Covid-19 - almost a quarter of the world's total. The country added one million new infections in less than a month. More than 183,000 people have now died. I
