BY BARNABAS MANEBONA A TOTAL of 522 people quarantined have been released from the 821 that arrived during December 2020. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said 299 remained and most of these will be released today and tomorrow. In his weekly…
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 BARNABAS MANEBONA SOLOMON Islands is among the countries that will benefit from a new Coronavirus (Covid-19) Vaccination initiative called the ‘COVAX Facility’. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in his first 2021 ‘National Address’ yesterday updating on ‘Vaccines’ said his government…
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…
BY BARNABAS MANEBONA ‘TWO’ Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases of the 17 registered in Solomon Islands remain positive. The two remaining positive cases are soccer players returning from England on October 2020, confirmed Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in his first 2021 Covid-19…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI FOUR Papua New Guinean nationals are at the moment kept under quarantine at Pelau police post in Malaita Outer Islands. The four were reported to have illegally trans-border the SI-PNG border from Tasman Island (under PNG)…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO SUSPECTS who had breached quarantine procedures have been identified and their names forwarded to responsible authorities to deal with. The breach of quarantine procedures happened when Camp management teams discovered forbidden items such as cigarettes and…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO THE Solomon Islands Government (SIG) is worried over the new variant of covid-19 which was recently discovered. This has forced government to closely monitor people who will fly into the country from Japan due to the…
BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO OF the 17 recorded cases of covid-19 in the country 10 have recovered and three remain positive with four still in isolation at the National Referral Hospital (NHR). Dr Gregory Jilini, deputy secretary health improvement Ministry…
288 nationals expected to be repatriated this week BY MAVIS N PODOKOLO TWO hundred and eighty-eight nationals are expected to be repatriated from Fiji on December 29 and 30. These are graduating Solomon Islands students from the University of South…
