PALIKIR, Pohnpei On March 19th, 2021, His Excellency David W. Panuelo President of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) sent a letter to the Honorable Debra Anne Haaland, the newly confirmed and first Native American Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), requesting the FSM’s membership in the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE). The letter was sent as a response by the Vice Speaker of the U.S. Territory of Guam, the Honorable Tina Muña-Barnes, requesting DOI’s Office of Insular Affairs to consider funding the WICHE annual membership fee for the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands, including the FSM, with the purpose of demonstrating the Nation’s enthusiastic endorsement of that request.
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A thousand now fully vaccinated in French Polynesia
More than a thousand people in French Polynesia have now received both doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.
The jab requires two shots 21 days apart.
Those who have received their first dose now exceeds 4600.
The jab is being rolled out to frontline workers, the elderly and those with vulnerabilities on both Tahiti and Moorea.
It is not available on other islands due to cold storage and transport issues.
There are 73 active cases in the French territory including 30 new ones in the last three days, bringing the total to 18,293.
Fifteen people are in hospital including six in intensive care.