GIS: 12 July 21- The Ministry of Health and Wellness has carried out 1 024 PCR tests as at 18 00 hrs this afternoon. – One case was detected at the COVID-19 Testing Centre of the SSRN Hospital. The epidemiological link has already been established. – One case was recorded through ongoing Contact Tracing exercises. […]
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Senior Advisor for partnerships and resource mobilisation under the Generation Unlimited (GenU) movement, Ms. Nadi Albino, paid a courtesy call on Southern African Development Community (SADC) Executive Secretary, Dr Stergomena Lawrence Tax, on 02 July 2021. The promotion of youth empowerment through regional programmes so as to help the […]
Maryland, USA — On the Global Reef Expedition – the largest coral reef survey and mapping expedition in history – scientists from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation traveled to the Chagos Archipelago to study some of the most remote coral reefs on Earth. What we found were reefs teeming with life, but also […]
A training on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) reporting, aimed at familiarising journalists and reporters with different writing techniques to ensure a fair, accurate, and inclusive reporting of LGBTQ stories and related issues, was held yesterday, at the Media Trust in Port-Louis. Representatives of various local media houses attended the one-day training funded […]
The Ministry of Health and Wellness has carried out 3 270 PCR tests yesterday, 24 June 2021. The test results were obtained late at night. The positive cases detected are as follows: · Two cases detected on Day 7 in quarantine. These patients were negative on admission in quarantine. · Nine cases detected through Contact […]
Sir Anerood Jugnauth, the towering figure of Mauritian politics for six decades, has died at the age of 91. “SAJ”, as he was fondly known, will be remembered as the father of the Mauritian economic miracle. Under his stewardship as both prime minister and president, Mauritius witnessed full employment, unprecedented growth and the setting up […]
Port Louis — Mauritius will be welcoming international travellers from 15 July 2021. The island will be opening in phases during 2021 and the first phase, from 15 July to 30 September 2021, will enable vaccinated travellers to enjoy a resort holiday on the island. Holidaymakers will be able to enjoy facilities within their chosen […]
Sir Anerood Jugnauth was one of the key players in the transformation of Mauritius into a republic. Here is the story of that struggle, and just how complicated a fight it turned out to be. 1) The first attempt Although the idea of turning Mauritius into a republic was germinating within the Labour Party led […]
The government is currently mulling draft regulations under the Quarantine Act that would make it mandatory for health and education workers to show either a vaccination card to prove they have been immunized against Covid-19 or a negative PCR test before being allowed into schools and healthcare facilities. The draft regulations point out that under […]
The Ministry of Health and Wellness has recorded six local cases of COVID-19 during the night. The six cases were detected as a result of the ongoing Contact Tracing exercise. Four cases were already in quarantine and were tested positive on Day 0. The patients are from the following regions: Mesnil (2), Quatre Bornes (2), […]
A new Tobacco Cessation Clinic was inaugurated, today, at Dr Yves Cantin Community Hospital in Black River, by the Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Kailesh Kumar Singh Jagutpal, in the context of World No Tobacco Day 2021. The theme for this year is Commit to quit. A video clip and a poster were also […]
The Ambassador of the Republic of France to Mauritius, Mrs Florence Caussé-Tissier, paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Blue Economy, Marine Resources, Fisheries and Shipping, Mr Sudheer Maudhoo, this morning, in Port-Louis. In a statement after the meeting, Minister Sudheer Maudhoo underlined that he discussed with the Ambassador, the various partnerships that Mauritius […]
Mauritius has procured a total of 38 400 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine under the COVAX Facility. The vaccines arrived yesterday on an Air Mauritius flight from Paris and will be used in the national vaccination campaign in the country’s ongoing fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The consignment was received at the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International […]
The Republic of Mauritius has donated medical equipment to the Republic of India to assist India in its fight against a resurgence of Covid-19 joining the efforts of the international community to support India in its moment of emergency. Mauritius sent a shipment of 200 oxygen concentrators, which have arrived in Mumbai today. The oxygen […]
The Ministry of Health and Wellness has not recorded any cases of COVID-19 in the community during the last 24 hours (including the screening of more than 500 persons carried out yesterday in Roche Bois). 406 patients considered cured have returned home. Latest figures on COVID-19 since 05 March 2021: 417 cases recorded through Contact […]
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, schools were closed as from 19 March 2020 and reopened on 01 July 2020 after the Ministry of Education, Tertiary Education, Science and Technology had worked out a general preparedness plan in consultation with the Ministry of Health and Wellness, for the re-opening of all […]
The Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Kailesh Jagutpal, yesterday, announced, at the National Assembly, that the Next Generation Sequencing Equipment, acquired at a cost of Rs 6.5 million, is expected to be operational by mid-April 2021. The equipment, said Dr Jagutpal, has been delivered on 24 March 2021. It is presently being installed and […]
With the government’s vaccination programme against Covid-19 underway, in the midst of a second lockdown since the pandemic hit Mauritius last year, a number of contradictions seem to be cropping up in the health minister Kailesh Jagutpal’s response to this second wave of Covid-19 and its vaccination campaign. So what are they? Who gets the […]