BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THIRTY-ONE swabs collected in the contact tracing to the latest covid-19 scare have all tested negative. The samples are from the student’s village in Malaita of people with whom he had interacted following his return there…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THE Japan’s government sealed an agreement with the Solomon Islands Government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MFAET) through a signing for the extension of the Kukum Highway phase-two project. The first phase…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THE number of covid-19 cases remain at two following the reactivation of a negative case (which later became positive), says prime minister Manasseh Sogavare. Mr Sogavare when delivering his national address yesterday echoed that in the…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO WORK to revamp staff houses for health workers in the three clinics along the border catchment area is progressing and will be fully operational to the overall covid-19 operations along the border with Bougainville soon. This…
Only 838 pass to Form 7 out of 4,494 students EIGHTY-ONE percent of form-six students who sat for the 2020 final-year examinations did not make it to form-seven. This was despite the examination offered at a ‘moderate’ difficulty level, ministry…
THE Solomon Islands Government has stressed that it remains committed in implementing strict measures to prevent further potential importation and spread of covid-19. According to the National Disaster Council report it stressed that the government remains loyal to implement strict…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THE Solomon student in the Philippines who had covid, then recovered, and got re-infected with covid-19 has tested negative. The student had covid-19 while in the Philippines. He later recovered and passed tests with negative results…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO AUTHORITIES are reportedly having a hard time contacting the 10 former covid-19 patients who are being sought to undergo a re-test. The 10 had previously recovered and tested negative before being released back to society, but…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THE country had run more than 2,000 covid-19 tests for December alone and likely a similar number of tests will be done for January and February this year. This was highlighted by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THE flight for Guangzhou scheduled for January 24 will be delayed as Solomon Airlines still has not received approval from relevant authorities for the flight. This was confirmed by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare yesterday in his…