3,760 articles tagged "covid"
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has highlighted that Fiji’s leading medical experts are in talks with Australia and New Zealand health experts in laying the groundwork for integrated public health approaches critica
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has made it clear that if businesses aren’t complying with the safe COVID-19 measures, the government will not hesitate to go back on the easing of restrictions. He says most of
The careFIJI app, Fiji's COVID-19 tracing app has been launched by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and it is now available on Google Playstore or the Apple App Store. Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says the ca
Sporting facilities and activities will now be permitted but it will be permitted with strict rules. This has been highlighted by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama during his COVID-19 announcement today. Baini
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has announced that nightclubs will stay closed while from Monday, the 22nd of June, they will be allowing for gatherings of up to 100 individuals. Bainimarama says, for the time be
Year 12 and Year 13 students in secondary schools will start classes on Tuesday - 30 June 2020 while the rest of the primary and secondary school students, as well as early childhood education, will open one week later,
The new nationwide curfew hours starting from today (Monday - 22nd June 2020) will be from 11pm to 4am. Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has announced that the nationwide curfew will remain in effect but to allow
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says effective from Friday, the 26th of June, they are allowing houses of worship to re-open their doors to 100 worshippers at a time. He says starting tomorrow, over the next thre
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has announced that the nationwide curfew will remain in effect but from tomorrow 22nd June 2020 the new curfew hours will be from 11pm to 4am. He has also announced that ni
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama is expected to make a COVID-19 related announcement at 12pm today. Follow the live updates and live video here on fijivillage. One hour after the announcement by the Prime Mi
Brazil has become the second country in the world to confirm more than one million cases of COVID-19, as the disease continues to spread. There was a record number of new cases in the past 24 hours - more than 54,0
Air Terminal Services Fiji Limited has terminated employment contracts of 285 workers effective from today as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic. ATS says it has experienced a drastic 95%plus reduction in bus
Health Minister Dr. Ifereimi Waqainabete says we should continue to think about how we behave in the new normal and we have to keep pushing this new behavioural change associated with combating COVID-19. Dr Waqainab
Australia’s Tourism Minister, Simon Birmingham says the nation's border is likely to stay closed until next year. Simon Birmingham said the decision to shut the border was one of the main reasons for Australia's
The Ministry of Health has today received another 40 Airvo hiflow oxygen machines from the New Zealand Government. This brings the total of Airvo oxygen machines donated by New Zealand to 80. While receiving t
Health Minister Dr.Ifereimi Waqainabete says one thing is becoming clear is that when restrictions are being lifted in countries, and they go back to their old normal then the risk of COVID-19 is very high. Dr Waqa
China has increased testing and lockdown measures in parts of its capital Beijing to control what appeared to be its largest coronavirus outbreak in more than two months. The 40 new cases reported yesterday include
Dr James Fong who has recently served as the General Manager for the country's COVID-19 Incident Management Team, has been appointed as the new acting Permanent Secretary for Health and Medical Services, effective immed
A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with COVID-19. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone (dek·suh·meh·thuh·sown)is a major breakthrough in the fight agains
There are two new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand. The NZ Ministry of Health confirmed in a statement that the cases are related to the border as a result of recent travel from the United Kingdom The NZ Heral
