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Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong [Image: File Photo]
People who have recovered recently from COVID-19 or presumed COVID-19 are eligible for vaccination once they have completed 14 days of isolation and recovered from acute illness.
Permanent Secretary for Health, Doctor James Fong says the Ministry of Health, with assistance from the World Health Organisation, has reviewed the current advice that recommends a waiting period of 90 days before a person previously infected with COVID-19 should receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
He says this is based on updated evidence, and advice from WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization, an established practice in other countries.
Siteri Sauvakacolo
4 August, 2021, 12:32 pm
In happier times… Vinaisi Naivalu (right) who succumbed to COVID 19 three weeks ago with her younger sisters Lavenia and Lanieta at their Nadi home. Picture: SUPPLIED
A Yasawa family is pleading to Fijians to get their jabs and protect their family members because the pain of losing a loved one to COVID-19 is torturing and extremely painful.
Lanieta Naivalu lost her elder sister, a schoolteacher, to COVID-19 a fortnight ago.
Vinaisi Naivalu had travelled from Cicia in Lau to deliver her baby in Suva a few months ago and succumbed to COVID-19 three weeks after giving birth to her daughter.