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TORBA Dard office Covid-19 preparedness underway
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) is preparing to mitigate the impact of community transmission of Covid-19 on families in TORBA province.TORBA is currently Covid-free. The...
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Australian farms turn away from Vanuatu over border closures and stranded...
A seasonal worker agent says employers in Australia and New Zealand are turning away from Vanuatu due to its ongoing border closures.It comes as the Vanuatu Opposition calls on the government to...
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Vanuatu records 2 Covid-related deaths
Vanuatu’s Ministry of Health today confirmed two new deaths linked to Covid-19 bringing the total number of deaths to date to six deaths.The first person is 59-year-old female, while the second...
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Vanuatu rolls out Covid-19 vaccination in Shepherd Islands and Epi
The Shefa Provincial Government, through its Shefa Health Office, and the Maritime Wing of the Vanuatu Police Force are working together to administer Covid-19 vaccination in Shepherd Islands and...
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Australia and Vanuatu sign Pacific Fusion Centre MOU
The Australian Government and the Government of the Republic of Vanuatu have reached an important milestone, signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the long-term operation of the Pacific...
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Veteran Vanuatu politician pardoned
Vanuatu’s Head of State, Obed Moses Tallis, pardoned the conviction of veteran politician Willie Jimmy Wednesday. Jimmy is the founder and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and served in...
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Magnitude 5.8 earthquake reported in Vanuatu
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 has reportedly struck Vanuatu.The quake was reportedly at a depth of 200km and approximately 58km northeast of Norsup.There were no immediate reports of damage or...
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12 new Covid cases in Vanuatu
The Ministry of Health has confirmed 12 new Covid community cases in the 24 hours to 12pm on 17 April.Eight of the cases are in Shefa province and four in Sanma.Three of them are hospitalised in...
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Vanuatu's Covid-19 lockdown causes workers to look abroad for employment
Vanuatu's Covid-19 lockdown in Port Vila has forced skilled workers in the country's most prominent hotels and restaurants to apply for seasonal employment in Australia and New Zealand.Vanuatu Tourism...
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Vanuatu sees increase in petroleum prices
Consumers in Vanuatu will be paying more for diesel and petrol as of today according to the Department of Energy.The Department said the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February the led to the increase...
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Biogas project to benefit mamas selling food at markets in Efate
The Department of Agriculture and the Port Vila City Council will implement a biogas project that will mamas who cook and sell food at market outlets in Efate.The department and the city council have...
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Students of Vanuatu school test positive for Covid-19
Some 27 students in Vanuatu have tested positive to the Omicron variant of Covid-19.The cases were detected during the first day of testing of 77 students of Ranwadi Secondary school in Penama province...
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Efate curfew removed, some restriction’s eased
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has lifted the 8pm -6am curfew for Efate and Offshore islands- ending almost 2 months of strict restrictions on movement due to Covid-19.Several other measures have also...
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Vanuatu records 5 new Covid-related deaths
The Ministry of Health has confirmed five new deaths linked to Covid-19 bringing the death toll to 12.Two cases are based in Shefa Province and three in Sanma Province.According to the ministry, the...
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Pentecost and Torres Group on Alert Level 3 with community cases
The Ministry of Health has confirmed 29 positive cases of Covid-19 in Torba Province and 25 on Pentecost Island. Minister of Health, Bruno Leingkon announced that Torba Province and Pentecost Island...
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Call for Vanuatu police chief to reinstate officers suspended over brutality...
There has been a call for the Vanuatu police commissioner to re-instate three officers suspended after allegations of brutality.A chief from the Teouma area, just outside Port Vila, George Natau, said...
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Vanuatu mum gives birth at home because of Covid-19
A Vanuatu mother had to deliver her baby at home on the weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak on Pentecost in Penama province.RNZ Pacific's Vanuatu correspondent Hilaire Bule reported that Melsisi...
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Lack of testing equipment hampering Vanuatu island's Covid battle
Efforts to contain a Covid outbreak on Vanuatu's Pentecost Island are being hampered by a lack of testing equipment.RNZ Pacific's correspondent in Vanuatu reports chief Visisio Bubunbah as saying the...
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One more Covid-19 related death in Vanuatu
Another death related to Covid-19 has been recorded in Vanuatu last Saturday. She was a 50-year old female from Shefa Province. The deceased was unvaccinated and had underlying health conditions.This...
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Vanuatu receives more Covid vaccines from China
A total of 100,000 Sinopharm Covid-19, vaccines, 102,400 syringes and 10, 000 Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) kits arrived from China last Saturday. This was the third batch of Covid-19 vaccines sent by...
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