DILI: Timorese citizens are flocking to register their vote ahead of the 2022 President of Republic election at an unprecedented level, early registration figures show, indicating possible record turnout for the vote.
DILI:Timor-Leste’s Integrated Crises Management Centre (ICCM) has clarified rules on domestic movement, insisting that people fully vaccinated with two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine can move between municipalities without a COVID-19 test.
DILI: Pregnant women in Timor-Leste should feel safe to get Covid-19 vaccine made by Sinovac or Pfizer because there is more real-world data to show they are safe, Timor-Leste’s World Health Organisation Representative Arvind Mathur said on Friday.
DILI:Timor-Leste’s National Parliament is preparing changes to the law that will prohibit children from working, the President of the Commission F Neo da Silva Ximenes said.
DILI: Timor-Leste has administered more than 245,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Tuesday, health authorities said.
DILI: Moving to prevent introduction of the Delta COVID-19 variant, Timor-Leste said on Friday it would impose five day mandatory quarantine on all travellers coming from countries where the highly transmittable variant has been detected.
DILI – Timorese officials moved to calm public fears on Friday after confirming a woman in Bobonaro had died after a receiving a COVID-19 vaccine last week.
DILI:Major General Lere Anan Timur said on Monday he would run in Timor-Leste’s Presidential election in 2022 if he gets the backing of independence leader and former President Xanana Gusmao and comrades.
DILI: Timor-Leste’s COVID-19 taskforce urged the government on Thursday to close the country’s land and sea borders for two weeks in response to a surge in COVID-19 Delta Virus cases in neighbouring countries.
DILI: Timor-Leste’s youth party KHUNTO has declared it will back Vice Prime Minister Armanda Berta as a candidate in next year’s President of Republic election.
DILI: Civil Society leaders and former Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta have expressed their dismay at Timor-Leste’s decision to abstain from voting on the United Nation's resolution against Myanmar's military coup, labelling the move a “vote of shame” and demanding accountability over who made the decision.
DILI: National Parliament has told its members that they will not be allowed to work in the field if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccination without legitimate health reasons,
DILI: Dili will exit a COVID-19 lockdown on Thursday night, government authorities said, although restrictions on travel from the city to municipalities would likely remain for another week.
DILI: Timor-Leste on Wednesday has agreed to maintain its sanitary fences in Dili, Baucau, Bobanaro and Covalima, remove the one in Viqueque, while also strengthening its vaccination campaign against the fast-moving coronavirus.