Around 200 defence and police personnel deployed to Honiara to assist with restoration of law and order in Honiara following the recent unrest, have successfully completed their 10 and 14 days period of health monitoring with all COVID-19 tests results, negative.
The Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) would like to condemn last week’s newspaper report of a young girl in Malaita province who claimed to have her arm turned magnetic attracting android phone and other metal objects after getting her first COVID-19 vaccine jab.
An Air Vanuatu repatriation flight enroute for Honiara from Port Vila, Vanuatu yesterday was cancelled as most of about 50 returning passengers to Solomon Islands have not received their full Covid-19 vaccination.
The National Referral Hospital (NRH) would be recruiting overseas doctors if circumstances come hard, says the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Referral Hospital, Dr George Malefoasi.
The country’s economy is deteriorating and it cannot remain in isolation for too long, says Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare as he pleads to eligible Solomon Islanders to get vaccinated.
If Honiara and Guadalcanal achieve a 90 percent full vaccination, Honiara will not have to go into lockdown if a community spread of COVID-19 is detected. Mr Sogavare said the most vaccine hesitancy in the country has been reported in Honiara and Guadalcanal province.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare today announced that by 31st October 2021, any employee of the national and provincial governments and SOEs that still chooses to not be vaccinated shall have a 50 percent cut in salaries and will not be allowed to go to their workplaces.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare strongly calls on individuals including sex workers to stay out from foreign vessels. The Prime Minister made the statement in his Nation-wide address this afternoon after it came to his attention that there are illegal activities occurring in some of the foreign…
The health sector has encountered challenges in communication, coordination and logistics during the 36-hour simulation exercise. Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) Incident Controller Dr Bainivalu highlighted they also face some challenges in human resources.
As the clock is ticking towards the expiry date of COVID-19 first dose of vaccine for public servants at midnight tonight, the Solomon Islands Public Employees Union (SIPEU) will be conducting an assessment on public servants in the coming days.
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 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.
Preparation towards the Food System Summit Dialogue in New York City, September this year is well underway. As part of the preparations, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) in partnership with the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) Facilitated a two-day pre-summit Dialogue which…
Secretary to the Prime Minister Dr. Jimmy Rodgers assures that COVID-19 vaccines are not the ‘mark of the beast’ or 6-6-6. Dr. Rodgers made the clarification following misinformation that the vaccines were suspected of being the ‘mark of the beast’ that led to some people refused to get vaccinated.
The current government’s cash flow problem is only temporary, says Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Finance and Treasury McKinnie Dentana. Mr. Dentana made the clarification in a media conference yesterday.
The Solomon Islands Government through the Cabinet has approved a mandatory vaccination to all Public servants, State-Owned Enterprises, and the Private employees undertaking frontline work. The Cabinet approved the mandatory vaccination last Friday, July 30th, 2021.
Motion to extend the State of Public Emergency for an additional four months has been passed in Parliament this afternoon. Hon Speaker Patterson Oti declared the motion received a majority vote of 43 with no absentees.
The National Referral Hospital (NRH) will soon beef up its COVID-19 Alert, Prevention and Preparedness. The Ministry of Health confirmed yesterday, this will involve closure and restriction of all entry points into the hospital.
Fifty thousand Australian-made AstraZeneca doses arrived in Solomon Islands today (29th July 2021) on a flight from Brisbane. A statement from the Australian High Commission in Honiara says Australia is delivering on its pledge to provide Solomon Islands with up to 1 million doses of the…
