Fiji

The Fijian government says Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama needs "time to recuperate" after undergoing heart surgery in Australia.

The United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be in the region this week for a high-level engagement with Pacific leaders.

Fiji's Government says face-to-face classes for Early Childhood Education (ECE) through to Year 7 will resume this Monday.

A pro-democracy activist in Fiji is calling for the government to provide regular updates about the health of Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama to cancel out rumours and fake news.

Fiji has reported three more deaths and 460 new cases of Covid-19 in the community.

A Fijian human rights activist is demanding answers from the authorities after reports that hundreds of nurses in the country are resigning.

Fiji has been through the worst phase of its third wave of the coronavirus, health authorities say, amid soaring deaths and infections across the country.

At least 70 percent of Fijians who had Covid-19 when they died were also suffering from a chronic disease, health authorities said.

Three more children have died from Covid-19 in Fiji, taking the death toll to 791 since March 2020.

The emergency communication capabilities at Fiji's National Disaster Management Office has received a boost from New Zealand.

Schools in Fiji - closed since April last year - have reopened this week despite a worsening third wave of the coronavirus in the country.