BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI MALAITA provincial health and other support authorities will launch an inquiry to verify the authenticity of pictures and information contain in a clip that is currently circulating on social. The same news appeared in the print…
UP to 239, 438 doses of COVID-19 vaccines – both AstraZeneca and Sinopharm Vaccines 1st and 2nd doses – have been administered as of Friday last week 5th of November. That’s according to the Ministry of Health and Medical Services.…
Only 11% of population fully vaccinated BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO A total of 210,439 doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered so far. They include both AstraZeneca and Sinopharm, health Permanent Secretary Pauline McNeil says. She added said the 210,439…
ANY traveller that is 18 years and older must be fully vaccinated before they can enter the country. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in his nationwide address on Monday this week said intending travellers must undertake their final vaccination dose 4…
THE Government has given another lifeline to unvaccinated public servants until the end of January 2022 to get vaccinated. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in his nationwide address on Monday this week said public servants have been given another chance to…
DEPUTY Commissioner General Dennis Marita has met with officials from Israeli pharmaceutical company CODE PHARMA who have identified the Solomon Islands as one of the Island nations in the South Pacific where they plan to further develop a groundbreaking medical…
Cabinet agrees to decrease period spent in quarantine. BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO CABINET has agreed to decrease quarantine period for travellers who wish to enter Solomon Islands by modifying it into three categories according to COVID-19 risk profile of countries,…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO AN investigation is being launched after fake vaccination cards were reportedly discovered. This as the country continues to face a slow vaccination rate. Secretary to the Prime Minister Dr Jimmie Rodgers confirmed this yesterday at a…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO OF the 141 people booked to board the recent Fiji repatriation flight, eight people were disqualified from boarding the flight due to strict COVID-19 measures. According to Dr Jimmie Rodgers Secretary to the Prime Minister ,out…
NO COVID-19 positive persons arrived on board the repatriation flight from Fiji yesterday, the Ministry of Health says. It was responding to social media rumours that three COVID-positive persons were allowed on the flight. “These rumours are not true,” a…
