Good news for Fiji National University (FNU) alumni members as they will be able to obtain a special discount from HealthPlus Diagnostic Centre when accessing services. The discount was made possible through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) by the FNU Alumni Office and HealthPlus Diagnostic Centre. HealthPlus has clinics across the country…Read More

Bula Vinaka. We’ve started this announcement a bit late today. As I’ve mentioned before, we test for the virus non-stop, 24/7. Positive cases don’t always come about at convenient times. Today we’ve had some late developments that have brought about important changes to our strategy, and we’ve spent the afternoon ensuring we can communicate those…Read More

Bula Vinaka. I’ll start today with better news –– we’ve added some invaluable new tools to our arsenal that will help us expand, and quicken, our COVID-19 laboratory testing. As of 9:00 this morning, we have received four new GeneXpert machines, which together have the capacity to run 384 extra COVID-19 tests in 24 hours. Combining…Read More

Bula vinaka, and good afternoon. We have received confirmation from the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit (MDU) at the Peter Doherty Institute in Melbourne that recent cases of COVID-19 are of the B1617 variant that was first detected in India. As I mentioned yesterday, our contact tracing investigations meant that we already strongly suspected that this was…Read More

Dear all, Following the statement from the Permanent Secretary for Health and Medical Services, Dr James Fong yesterday Sunday 25.04.21 of 4 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, the University is immediately taking the following actions: All staff should continue to work from home for the next 14 days (26 April to 10 May).…Read More