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Police Deliver Groceries, Toilet Papers Amidst Spike of Covid-19 on Fiji Island
News 18Fiji on Wednesday began distributing groceries to some households as it urges people to stay at home amid rising infections of the highly transmissible Delta variant of the novel coronavirus. Police and a supermarket “delivered household packs to Fijians in targeted lockdown areas and home isolation”, the government said on Twitter as part of a publicity blitz on COVID-19 safety. “Unlike some developed countries where people are able to lock down and stay indoors, people are still running around, some of them without masks, and it’s not an easy situation,” he said. Sheldon Yett, the U.N. Children’s Fund representative in the Pacific, told Reuters Fiji was “reeling” but the vaccine rate was rising, with 55% of the population having received at least one shot and just under 10% two shots.
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