63 articles tagged "covid-vax-rollout-indepth"
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
Huge crowds of people turned up at various COVID-19 vaccination locations in Suva this morning which included Wainitarawau Road in Cunningham, Kinoya Methodist Church and Kinoya Village Hall. In Wainitarawau Settle
Fiji will have approximately 86,000 AstraZeneca doses by the end of the week through the COVAX facility and Australia and New Zealand. Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong reveals the vaccination plan
The Health Ministry has now taken the next step to fully vaccinate the frontliners for COVID-19. The second jabs are now being administered on the health workers. Permanent Secretary for Health Doctor James Fo
An additional 10,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have arrived from Australia. Australia's High Commissioner to Fiji, John Feakes says they are pleased to announce this second delivery of Australia-made AstraZe
The Health Ministry's COVID-19 vaccination drive starts today in parts of Macuata and Bua. You can get vaccinated at St Mary's Primary School in Labasa, the Agriculture Quarters in Dreketi, Nadogo Secondary School
The next phase of the COVID-19 Vaccination drive has started in Nadi, Lautoka and Suva this morning. People are being urged to come at Prince Charles Park in Nadi and Tilak High School in Lautoka till 6pm. For
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the current commitments for the COVID-19 vaccine doses for the country can cover 484,000 Fijians. He says we need to cover 650,000 people. Doc
Fiji’s fight against COVID-19 has received a major boost as New Zealand has offered, and Fiji has accepted, AstraZeneca doses for 250,000 people from New Zealand’s domestic vaccine portfolio. New Zealand Associ
The Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong says there are indications that they will be getting enough COVID-19 vaccines for everyone they want to vaccinate. Dr Fong says they will be getting the vaccine in b
Another 24,000 AstraZeneca doses from the COVAX facility has arrived and the Permanent Secretary for Health Dr James Fong says that they are looking at deploying the whole 24,000 vaccines soon. Please stay listenin
More than 50,000 people have been vaccinated and all vaccination centres are closed for now. The Ministry of Health confirms the current vaccine supply has been exhausted. They earlier announced that this phas
The Health Ministry is about to reach it’s target of vaccinating 50,000 people in the country to protect them against COVID-19 and the number of vaccination centres open today have been reduced compared to earlier thi
Minister for Health Doctor Ifereimi Waqainabete confirms that everyone that got their first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine will surely be getting their second dose in the next 8 to 12 weeks as they have kept i
27,705 Fijians have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine so far. The Ministry of Health says 9,932 people were vaccinated yesterday alone. The Ministry says based on the high uptake of
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong confirms that the COVID-19 vaccination hesitation is starting to ease off as we are getting a critical mass of people getting vaccinated. With huge turnouts being r
Huge turnouts are being recorded at the COVID-19 vaccination sites around the country as the Health Ministry has stepped up the vaccination drive from today. Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong say
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and his wife, Mary have received their first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine today. Bainimarama says these vaccines are more than a shot in the arm, they are an injection of
Around 4,000 members of the Fiji Police Force will be receiving their first jab of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week. This includes staff in the Western, Central and Southern Divisions. Members of the F
The President of the Shree Sanatan Dharm Pratinidhi Sabha of Fiji, Sarju Prasad says whatever helps cure certain ailments is not evil and the COVID-19 vaccine must be welcomed. Speaking to fijivillage, Prasad says
