{"id":1244,"date":"2021-09-13T03:32:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T03:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2021-09-13T03:35:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T03:35:34","slug":"fiji-prepares-for-internal-border-re-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"Fiji prepares for internal border re-opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>Fiji Medical experts reveals that they do not need to wait for the two-week buffer period to re-open containment borders once 60% of the eligible population are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1246\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1246\" src=\"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vaccine-12-sept-768x768-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vaccine-12-sept-768x768-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vaccine-12-sept-768x768-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vaccine-12-sept-768x768-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vaccine-12-sept-768x768-1-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vaccine-12-sept-768x768-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vaccine-12-sept-768x768-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fijian GOV&#8217;T<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fiji Medical Association President, Doctor Basharat Munshi says the vaccination threshold is a national guide and should not to be mistaken as scientific data when assessing Fiji\u2019s COVID situation.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns have been raised on the safety of opening containment borders without waiting for the two-week buffer period, to which Dr Munshi replied that our safety can be measured by Fiji\u2019s high vaccination rate.<\/p>\n<p>Fijian Health Minister, Doctor Ifereimi Waqainabete says by the time the 60 percent threshold is reached, the majority of the target population will be considered fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 vaccine only takes full effect a fortnight after an individual receives the second jab.<\/p>\n<p>Vaccination data is collected daily, except for Sundays when there is no vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>As of this morning, the full vaccination rate was 1.8 percent below the 60 percent required to lift containment borders and move the curfew to 9 pm.<\/p>\n<p>-FBC NEWS \/ FIJIAN GOVERNMENT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji Medical experts reveals that they do not need to wait for the two-week buffer period to re-open containment borders once 60% of the eligible population are fully vaccinated. Fiji Medical Association President, Doctor Basharat Munshi says the vaccination threshold is a national guide and should not to be mistaken as scientific data when assessing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175,222],"tags":[59,220],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-fiji-news","category-latest-news","tag-featured","tag-fiji-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}