Bula Vinaka everyone. I hope everyone has a mask or has made a capable substitute. Importantly –– I hope you are wearing it everytime you leave your house. In a taxi, on a bus, in the supermarket –– if you are not at home, wear a mask. I want to thank all those who have…Read More

Bula Vinaka. I want to start today with a reminder of what we are up against. It may have been some time since some of us have heard the latest statistics about the toll this virus has taken on humanity. They are shocking, so please listen well. 141 million cases of COVID-19 have been recorded…Read More

Bula Vinaka. To put Fiji ahead of the spread of this virus, we have spent the past 24 hours listening carefully to everything that our testing and contact tracing is telling us. As the Hon PM announced yesterday, we will not hesitate to escalate our response in accordance with the risk we face. What we’ve…Read More

Bula vinaka and good afternoon. As we announced in the early hours of the morning, Fiji is once again faced with a grave and present danger to the lives of our people. We have confirmed our first local case of COVID-19 in more than one year, and we must act quickly to stop it from…Read More

The Ministry of Health and Medical Services has continued to run COVID-19 tests on the first- and second-generation contacts identified through its contact tracing effort stemming from the border quarantine case announced yesterday. As of early this morning, one of those first-generation contacts, a 53-year-old woman, has registered a positive COVID-19 test result. This woman…Read More