Items filtered by date: July 2021

DILI: Timor-Leste will put the municipality of Ermera on a coronavirus lockdown imposing a sanitary fence to restrict movement from the new virus hotpot and extend its health fence in Dili, the government announced on Wednesday.

DILI: Timor-Leste government on Wednesday enforced the closure of its border with Indonesia through August 1 amid alarm about the rapidly spreading Delta coronavirus that has caused cases to soar there.

DILI: Timor-Leste government on Wednesday enforced the closure of its border with Indonesia through August 1 amid alarm about the rapidly spreading Delta coronavirus that has caused cases to soar there.

DILI: Timor-Leste has received 12,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine donated by Portugal, the government said on Monday, as the country’s bullish vaccine campaign continues to help reduce coronavirus spread.

DILI: Timorese citizens are flocking to register their vote ahead of the 2022 President of Republic election at an unprecedented level, early registration figures show, indicating possible record turnout for the vote.

DILI:Timor-Leste’s Integrated Crises Management Centre (ICCM) has clarified rules on domestic movement, insisting that people fully vaccinated with two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine can move between municipalities without a COVID-19 test.

DILI: Pregnant women in Timor-Leste should feel safe to get Covid-19 vaccine made by Sinovac or Pfizer because there is more real-world data to show they are safe, Timor-Leste’s World Health Organisation Representative Arvind Mathur said on Friday.

DILI:Timor-Leste’s National Parliament is preparing changes to the law that will prohibit children from working, the President of the Commission F Neo da Silva Ximenes said.

DILI: Timor-Leste has administered more than 245,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Tuesday, health authorities said.

DILI: Moving to prevent introduction of the Delta COVID-19 variant, Timor-Leste said on Friday it would impose five day mandatory quarantine on all travellers coming from countries where the highly transmittable variant has been detected.