3,760 articles tagged "covid"
Fiji Airways has indicated that it would be applying for leave to appeal against the Employment Relations Tribunal’s decision to dismiss their application to strike out the former Fiji Airways flight attendants’ gri
Palau has received 200 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine and has immediately started the rollout. This means Palau has become the first Freely Associated State to receive the Johnson & Johnson COVID vacc
A group of charities is urging the UK Prime Minister to "swiftly clarify" how many Covid vaccine doses the UK is prepared to donate to poorer countries. Save the Children and the Wellcome Trust are among those call
Police have confirmed that they will investigate 8 employees of different companies after their mandatory 14 days quarantine period. This comes after breaches at a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Nadi last Tuesday.
A police report has been filed against the employees of an engineering company after breaches at a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Nadi. This was confirmed by the Permanent Secretary of Health Dr James Fong who say
A good number of people have registered this morning with the Ministry of Health team conducting registration for the COVID-19 vaccination at the Fiji Easter Fun Fair at the Subrails Nokonoko Carpark at Laucala Beach.
New Zealand expects to open a two-way travel bubble with the Cook Islands in May and is planning a vaccination campaign there. The leaders of both nations met in Auckland yesterday with New Zealand confirming $20 m
National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad today questioned the government why basic medication is not available at all times and citizens are told to purchase medication that should be on the essential dru
1 active COVID-19 case remains admitted at the Lautoka Hospital isolation unit while 936 people who recently arrived from overseas are undergoing mandatory 14-day quarantine in government supervised border quarantine fa
200 participants are expected to be part of the Top Executive Conference that will be held on the 28th and 29th of May at the Sofitel Fiji Resort and Spa in Nadi. Fiji Commerce Employers Federation Chief Executive
Although Australia has delivered 8,000 COVID-19 vaccines to Papua New Guinea this week, the hard work has only just begun. The vaccines are enough to immunise the country's frontline health workers, who are bearing
Savusavu Bay has been approved by the Fijian Government’s COVID-19 Risk Mitigation Taskforce as the nation’s second Blue Lanes Yacht Port after Port Denarau. The Blue Lanes initiative was pioneered through the
People will not need to worry about going to the main cities and towns to get their birth registration number as the Ministry for Health is working on mobilizing a team to conduct COVID-19 vaccine registrations which wi
The Fiji CSO Alliance for COVID-19 Humanitarian Response is calling for support for the people in the Western Division who are struggling just to try and put food on the table and have a decent meal. The CSO Allian
A new "double mutant" variant of the coronavirus has been detected from samples collected in India. BBC News reports officials are checking if the variant, where two mutations come together in the same virus, maybe
Students in cyclone affected areas will benefit from an additional $15 million package of support that has been announced today by Australian High Commissioner to Fiji, John Feakes. The new package of Australian su
The careFIJI COVID-19 mobile contact tracing app is temporarily suspended from Google PlayStore and steps are currently being taken to ensure we meet the amended policies set out by Google. Acting Permanent Secretar
Results from the long-awaited US trial of the Oxford AstraZeneca COVID vaccine are out and confirm that the shot is both safe and highly effective. The BBC reports that more than 32,000 volunteers took part, mostly
The number of daily COVID-19 infections in Papua New Guinea has reached a record high, with 295 cases recorded in a 24-hour period. Abc.net.au reports the number of COVID-19 cases across PNG has tripled over the pa
The boss of Australian airline Qantas says governments are going to insist on vaccines for international travellers. Coronavirus vaccines are seen as crucial to reviving an industry that saw worldwide passenger num
