DILI: Timorese Health Officials have called for people to do more to avoid mosquito bites to stem dengue fever infections, as the country continues to report an increasing number of cases on a daily basis.
DILI: Timor-Leste has said it will improve the quality of health services for women and children as it seeks to combat endemic malnutrition that afflicts nearly half of children under five in the country.
DILI: Timor-Leste says it has given approval for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to citizens aged 18 and over as a first or second dose in addition to the booster dose that already covered this age group.
DILI: Timor-Leste will introduce government subsidies for fuel as part of a relief package to cushion the blow from global commodity inflation driven up by the war in Ukraine.
DILI: Timor-Leste Presidential candidate Jose Ramos Horta has stepped up his message of domestic unity and peace reconciliation with Timorese in Indonesia that he said would ultimately help defeat incumbent President Francisco ‘Lu Olo’ Guterres.
DILI: One hundred thousand doses of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine from China have landed in Timor-Leste, the Timor-Leste government announced, as the country moves to build its supply stock to prevent future coronavirus infections and deaths.
DILI: Timor-Leste has logged nearly 3,600 dengue cases and at least 44 related deaths this year, the government says, underscoring how other viral diseases continue to spread even while the focus has been on the coronavirus pandemic.