Items filtered by date: August 2021

DILI: Timor-Leste reported one of the country’s youngest deaths from COVID-19 on Thursday, as daily infections lingered at a 16-month high.

DILI: The Council of Ministers introduced on Wednesday mandatory home confinement for the population of Dili municipality for seven days to contain an outbreak of the highly infections Delta coronavirus.

DILI: Some 54 health workers from Manufahi and 39 staff from the President’s Palace have caught COVID-19, officials said, as Timor-Leste battles its highest COVID-19 caseload since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

DILI:  Timor-Leste is set to introduce COVID-19 vaccine identification after a surge in suspected forged vaccination documents being used nationwide.

DILI: Timor-Leste on Wednesday approved two more sanitary fences in the Oecusse enclave, while the Minster of Health confirmed the country’s first shipment of Pfizer vaccines as Timor-Leste works to control the spread of coronavirus.

DILI: The public must support health workers from attacks and harassment compounding the already heavy toll they are paying in the pandemic, the Minister of Health Odete Maria Freitas Belo said on Monday, following the assault of the health director of Ermera Municipal Authority by a patient’s family on Sunday.

DILI: The Ermera municipality has become Timor-Leste’s new COVID-19 hotspot after more than two thirds of new COVID-19 cases last week were reported in people living there.