4 Aug 2021

Fiji may need new vaccine for mutating Covid-19 Delta variant

From , 6:02 am on 4 August 2021

Health experts in and around Fiji are warning if the Delta variant of Covid-19 keeps mutating - a new vaccine may be needed.

More than 20-thousand people with covid are in isolation and the death toll has passed two-hundred and 50, and climbing.

Christine Rovoi reports.

A health worker prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine for a resident at a drive-through vaccination centre in Suva.

A health worker prepares a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine for a resident at a drive-through vaccination centre in Suva. Photo: AFP / Leon Lord