Fiji

The ship Tahiti Nui has arrived in Suva to deliver relief items provided by French Polynesia to assist Fiji's rebuilding work in response to last month's Cyclone Yasa.

More than 2,000 people remain in evacuation centres in Fiji's cyclone-battered north and east, two weeks after one of the Pacific's most powerful cyclones.

Authorities in Fiji have confirmed another three cases of Covid-19, all of them in border quarantine.

Fiji's government is again allowing passenger flights into the country.

More than 4-thousand people are still in evacuation centres in Fiji nearly two weeks after Cyclone Yasa.

Fiji will close its borders to all incoming passenger flights from Thursday until next Monday.

Boat owners on Fiji's northern island of Vanua Levu woke with a sense of déjà vu last Friday as their vessels lay beached across nearby Niwa island following the aftermath of Cyclone Yasa.

Authorities in Fiji have distributed 10,000 food packs to people affected by Cyclone Yasa, as the aid effort in the country's north gets underway.

Tropical cyclone Yasa has dropped to a category 1, but four people are confirmed dead, and an aid worker says it has left some islands looking like a warzone.

Two people have died so far due to Cyclone Yasa, according to Fijian authorities.

The scale of destruction across Fiji is slowly becoming apparent as Cyclone Yasa moves southeast.

Many houses in Fiji's Vanua Levu have been destroyed and families sheltered under beds and tables in their houses, or in cane plantations, as Tropical Cyclone Yasa wreaked havoc overnight.

Cyclone Yasa, with winds at its centre gusting as high as 350km/h, made landfall on the Fiji island of Vanua Levu.

Category-five cyclone Yasa, with winds gusting as high as 350 kilometres per hour, is set to make landfall tonight.

Eight weeks down, one week to go.

People in Fiji are being warned the window of opportunity to prepare to be hit by the powerful Cyclone Yasa is closing.