Health teams will be deployed around communities in Honiara to do contact tracing simulation activities during the 36 hour lockdown. National Health Emergency Operation Centre (NHEOC) Incident Controller Dr Nemia Bainivalu said this are part of the simulation exercise during the lockdown to test…
The government caucus has approved a SBD7.8 million for 39 constituencies from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) CDF assistance. A Caucus minute signed by the Prime Minister, SIBC News sighted states the fund is the remaining balance of PRC CDF assistance for the 2020 fiscal year.
The National Referral Hospital (NRH) will focus on emergency and very serious cases only during the 36-hour Lockdown which will start on Sunday 29th August and lift at 6am on Tuesday 31st.
Wife of the long and dedicated Solomon Islands diplomat, the late High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, Barnabas Anga, expressed her disagreement on how their unapproved arrival was administered.
Initial COVID-19 test results of all the individuals who came into contact with a foreign vessel in Honiara earlier this month have returned negative. The individuals engaged in offloading cargoes on the foreign vessel, MV Papamau in Honiara on the 15th of this month.
Secretary to the Prime Minister Dr Jimmy Rodgers warns, Solomon Islands could be seriously affected by the delta variant of COVID-19 than the current situation in Fiji if all who are eligible do not get vaccinated.
The government will repatriate about 50 students who graduated in Fiji when it is safe for the country. The government will repatriate about 50 students who graduated in Fiji when it is safe for the country. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare announced this in his nationwide address yesterday. Mr.
A foreign national who arrived from a foreign vessel was tested positive for COVID-19 in the Western Province today. The person is serving the mandated quarantine period in the foreign vessel outside of Gizo. The Western Provincial Health Authority announced the result this afternoon.
The High Court recently ruled that the lockdown orders made by the Prime Minister under the COVID-19 Emergency Powers are legally valid under the constitution. The Court made the ruling in the case of Denis Mitoro Vs REGINA last Wednesday.
A middle-aged man is currently quarantined at the Nila Isolation Centre since Tuesday this week after returning from Bouganville on Monday night. The man was put in the isolation ward after the front-line officials received a report from the Tactical Commander at 10:30 pm on Monday.
The Government’s COVID-19 Oversight Committee has been directed to consider imposing travel restrictions from very high-risk countries. This is following the current worsening global COVID-19 Pandemic situation. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare made the order today in his weekly national address.
A new COVID-19 case was detected onboard a cargo vessel MV Chefoo over the weekend. The vessel left Lae, in Papua to Honiara on the 15th of April and arrived in Honiara on the 17th of April. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare announced during his national address today.
Main points: -AstraZeneca vaccine to arrive this Friday -First 24,000 doses free of charge provided by the COVAX facility -People’s Republic of China to provide twenty thousand doses of Sinopharm vaccines The first shipment of 24,000 doses of the AstraZeneca, a coronavirus vaccine, will arrive in…
Four Solomon Islands Police Response Team(PRT) at the Border were ambushed ahead of Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s visit to Nila in Shortland Islands yesterday. The incident happened prior to the arrival of Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare.
The National Health Emergency Operation Centre (NHEOC) of the Ministry of Health and Medical Services has activated it’s Emergency Response Plan’ last night to validate, track, and contain a potential COVID-19 outbreak.
The $1.2 million fund from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is currently at the Central bank of Solomon Islands. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare made the clarification following media reports that the funds has been used for the Stimulus package. Mr.
Leader of Opposition Hon. Mathew Wale calls on the government to halt repatriation plans for the United Kingdom (UK) as the multiple COVID-19 variants emerged with an unusually large number of mutants.
The number of positive COVID-19 cases in the country has dropped to four after one of the five COVID-19 patients was tested negative. These four patients include three returning soccer players from the United Kingdom and one citizen that returned from Indonesia.
