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Timoci Vula
27 July, 2021, 5:08 pm
Health officials at the COVID-19 vaccine drive-through at Albert Park in Suva. Picture: ATU RASEA/FT FILE
Fiji’s Minister for Local Government, Housing and Community Development Premila Kumar says the Government took the ‘no jab, no job’ step to protect Fijians from this highly infectious new Delta variant of COVID-19.
In her supporting parliamentary budget statement on the 2021-2022 National Budget announcement, Ms Kumar said Fiji had joined 15 other countries that imposed some form of compulsory vaccination for certain groups of people.
She said spme those countries included the Vatican City, Australia, Greece, Italy, France, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and there were other countries also contemplating the same.
24 July, 2021, 11:45 am
A police officer and a health worker at the COVID-19 vaccine drive-through at Albert Park. Picture: SUPPLIED
Christians, as people of faith, should get vaccinated against COVID-19 and give others life and hope by breaking the chain of transmission.
This, according to Pacific Theological College principal, the Rev Professor Upolu Vaai.
He said faith in God’s grace should not revolve around “a lifeboat theory sent straight from heaven to save us”.
Prof Vaai, who has been fully vaccinated since the end of June, said Christians needed to do their part for each other and others by getting the jab.
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