Seychelles ranks third in the world in terms of the percentage of its population that has received the COVID-19 vaccine, said a top official. 13,163 vaccinations have been given in the 11 days since the island nation launched its vaccination campaign, the Public Health Commissioner told a press conference on Thursday. “Seychelles as [...]
Rich countries have over-reported finance to help countries adapt to the impacts of climate change by $20 billion over the last decade, leaving at-risk communities drastically underfunded, a new analysis showed Thursday. Under the 2015 Paris climate deal, countries are required to boost funding to hard-hit governments, evenly split between cash to mitigate global warming [...]
US President Joe Biden was expected Thursday to unveil his administration's plans to tackle the coronavirus crisis, as he starts his first full day in the White House with America confronting a slew of challenges. Biden was sworn in as the 46th US president on Wednesday, delivering a calming call to heal a nation riven [...]
Students in Seychelles this week began a new school year at home for the first time due to the COVID-19 measures the island nation are observing, as the Ministry of Education adapts to faciliate remote learning. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday detailing the approach, the Principal Secretary for Education, Odile Decomarmond, said [...]
Most frontline medical and essential workers in Seychelles have received the COVID-19 vaccine and efforts will now move to tourism employees, said a top official. Two new vaccination centres opened on the main island of Mahe on Tuesday to allow people from the tourism industry to get their jabs. By next week the vaccination campaign [...]
"People Supremacy, Life Supremacy" reads the sign at a Wuhan exhibition, where visitors are greeted by a paean to China's triumph over the pandemic and the agility of its communist leadership in a crisis. Saturday marks one year since the start of a 76-day lockdown of Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the coronavirus was [...]
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned 73 people, including his former aide Steve Bannon and other allies, just hours before he was due to leave office. The list of those pardoned -- as well as 70 others whose sentences were commuted -- was released by the White House in a statement during the early [...]
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved new regulations to protect two reptiles endemic to Seychelles from exploitation and trafficking. The cabinet approved the regulations for the giant bronze gecko and the Seychelles tiger chameleon on January 6. On the same date, the cabinet approved the drafting of the Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora [...]
In a show of solidarity against COVID-19, eight Seychellois businesses and foundations donated $705,000 on Tuesday for the island nation's COVID-19 relief fund and vaccination programme, including a donation from the JJ Spirit Foundation that accounted for over half of the total. The donations came from Seychelles Breweries, the KD Pillay Foundation, SACOS Insurance, the [...]
Three new coronavirus cases hit the Australian Open's troubled build-up on Tuesday as a backlash grew against international tennis players flown in during a raging pandemic. Two of the new cases were players, state health officials said, taking the total infections to seven since more than 1,000 people arrived in largely coronavirus-free Australia on charter [...]
