Fiji

Fiji's National Disaster Management Office is urging people to avoid unnecessary travel, limit movements and to not cross flooded roads, rivers or streams as a tropical cyclone warning is issued.

Fiji's Meteorological Service says a tropical cyclone is likely to hit the country today.

Fiji has reported two deaths and 372 new cases of Covid-19 in the community.

Fiji's main opposition party has suffered a major setback - eight months out of the general election.

The Australian Government is assisting its citizens stranded in Fiji who claim they were mistreated by the locals after testing positive to Covid-19 when they arrived in the Pacific island nation.

Fiji has reported two deaths and 580 new cases of Covid-19 as health officials confirmed a third wave of both the Omicron and Delta variants in the community.

Fiji has reported one death and 309 new cases of Covid-19 in the community - 194 of them recorded in the 24 hours to 8am on Wednesday.

A human rights activist in Fiji says the country should be ashamed of what happened to academic Brij Lal who died in exile in Australia on Christmas Day.

Travellers to Fiji must now produce a negative PCR test 48 hours before departure to Nadi Airport, Fiji's government has said.

New Zealand has provided a further $40 million ($F58 million) in budgetary support to help the Fijian Government respond to the immediate socio-economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Less than a month after reopening to the world, Fiji is bracing for a third wave of the coronavirus outbreak.

Renowned Fijian academic Brij Lal has died in exile.

Eleven positive rapid antigen tests for Covid-19 in Fiji's north had attended a recent sports event, health authorities said.

An 11-month-old girl found at the scene where five people lay dead in Fiji's highlands was covered in vomit and crawling ants as she cried lying over her dead grandmother's chest - just a metre from a…

The frequent discovery of dead bodies and the increase in the number of missing people in Fiji is a concern, says a human rights advocate.

The elderly couple, who were among five people found dead in Fiji's highlands in 2019, had sought to withdraw $US23,000 from their bank - just days before they were killed, the court heard.