[L'Express] 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...

[L'Express] The foreign ministry is in the eye of a new storm: the diplomatic status of Showkutally Soodhun. The confusion stems from the fact that earlier this week, foreign minister Alan Ganoo told parliament, in response to questions about Soodhun...

[Government of Mauritius] The Souillac Hospital is temporarily closed to the public following the detection of positive COVID-19 cases and necessary measures are being undertaken so as to sanitise and clean the hospital. In the meantime, essential se...

[Government of Mauritius] It is mandatory for every citizen who believes he/she has been in contact with a COVID-19 infected person, or who presents symptoms of COVID-19, to get in touch with the Ministry of Health and Wellness through the hotline 89...

[Government of Mauritius] The Russian Direct Investment Fund informed the Ministry of Health and Wellness that the Russian Government is willing to supply some 1,25 million doses of the Sputnik vaccine, produced by the Gamaleya National Centre of Epi...

[Government of Mauritius] The Mauritius Police Force has approved 7,435 applications and Work Access Permits (WAPs) were issued to 187,619 persons as at 22 March 2021 following the detection of new local cases of COVID-19 since 10 March 2021.

[Government of Mauritius] Government is working towards the re-opening of additional economic activities as from 31 March 2021, announced the Prime Minister, Mr Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, during a televised message to the nation, this evening.

[Government of Mauritius] Government has received a donation of 100,000 doses of Covishield vaccine from the Government of India and has procured 100,000 doses of the same vaccine from the Serum Institute of India. Moreover, on 19 March 2021, 200,000...

[Government of Mauritius] Mediclinics and Citizen Advice Bureaus will not be used for the vaccination programme due to their limited spaces, stated the Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Kailesh Jagutpal, in reply to a Parliamentary Question, today,...

[Government of Mauritius] Some 100,000 persons are to be administered with the COVID-19 vaccine COVAXIN, as from tomorrow, in the National Vaccination campaign against COVID-19. They will receive its second dose will be given 28 days apart.

[Government of Mauritius] The Minister of Land Transport and Light Rail, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, Mr Alan Ganoo, effected a site visit, today, at the National Transport Corporation (NTC) depot of Bonn...

[Government of Mauritius] The handing over of the vaccines was done in the presence of the Minister of Land Transport and Light Rail, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, Mr Alan Ganoo, the Minister of Health and...

[Government of Mauritius] The objective of Government is to vaccinate at least 60% of the population so as to achieve 'herd immunity' and in that context, much efforts are being deployed to bring vaccines in the country so that a maximum number of pe...

[Government of Mauritius] A vaccination session against the COVID-19 for the diplomatic corps based in Mauritius, Honorary Consuls/Honorary Consuls General, as well as the diplomatic staff of Foreign Missions, kicked off this morning in Port-Louis. T...

[L'Express] Talk about AstraZeneca or any other vaccine and you will get a string of different reactions, some of which are emotional, others rational and based on what is going on in the rest of the world and a few reflect a deep mistrust of big pha...

[Government of Mauritius] The officers of the Consumer Affairs Unit (CAU) which operates under the aegis of the Ministry of Commerce and Consumer Protection, have carried out a series of crackdown operations in some 638 retail shops and supermarkets ...

[L'Express] The 30 member-states of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) were meeting in a special session in the backdrop of alarm over plummeting yellowfin tuna stocks in the Indian Ocean, with conservation groups warning of stock collapse, and ...

[Government of Mauritius] The Chinese-flagged fishing trawler, Lu Rong Yuan Yu 588, which ran aground off Mauritius northwest coast at Pointe-aux-Sables on 7 March 2021, was towed to the port of Port Louis, following the completion of the removal of ...

[Government of Mauritius] The re-introduction of the financial assistance schemes was announced, this afternoon, by the Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Development, Dr Renganaden Padayachy in a televised address to the nation from his Mini...

[Government of Mauritius] Minister Jagutpal announced that the number of local positive cases of COVID-19 as at 16 00 hours today has reached 127. He gave further details about the contact tracing exercise and underlined that results are obtained at ...

[Government of Mauritius] In the wake of the increasing number of Covid-19 cases, which now stands at 52, the Government has stepped up a protective plan to curb the propagation of the virus. The Constituencies 15, 16 and 17 will thus be locked down ...

[Government of Mauritius] The Vice-Prime Minister, Minister of Education, Tertiary Education, Science and Technology, Mrs Leela Devi Dookun-Luchoomun, announced that new dates have been finalised for students to take part in their final exams. A stri...

[Government of Mauritius] The Prime Minister, Mr Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, has announced, this evening, during a televised address to the nation, that a lockdown will be implemented as from 10 March 2021 at six am till 25 March 2021, following an incre...

[Government of Mauritius] A new Vaccination Programme has been put in place and will be effective as from tomorrow till the end of March 2021. Some 14 Vaccination Centres and private clinics apart from hospitals and Area Health Centres will welcome o...

[Government of Mauritius] Three clusters have been identified as possible transmission chains for the propagation of COVID-19 out of the 11,649 tests conducted as at date representing a percentage contamination rate of 0.84%. Out of these, 99 persons...

[Government of Mauritius] Government is implementing a number of measures following the national lockdown in force since this morning and with the detection of 16 new COVID-19 cases registered today bringing total to 31.

[Government of Mauritius] The country's economy, with the current second lockdown situation, will be deeply affected but nonetheless, the health and wellness of the population remains Government's top priority, stated the Prime Minister, Mr Pravind K...

[Government of Mauritius] Port Louis -- A new Vaccination Programme has been put in place and will be effective as from tomorrow till the end of March 2021.

[Government of Mauritius] Port Louis -- The country's economy, with the current second lockdown situation, will be deeply affected but nonetheless, the health and wellness of the population remains Government's top priority, stated the Prime Minister...

[Government of Mauritius] Port Louis -- In the wake of the increasing number of Covid-19 cases, which now stands at 52, the Government has stepped up a protective plan to curb the propagation of the virus. The Constituencies 15, 16 and 17 will thus b...