The State Council (EC) and the Superior Council for Defense and Security (CSDS) has agreed with the request made by the Government to renew the state of emergency for an additional 30 days. The EC and CSDS recommended that President Francisco Guterres Lu Olo, issue a request to parliament for the extension to the current …
European Comission has granted a €22 million (USD 25,5 Million) through a program of “Health Support in response to COVID-19 in the Pacific” to help people living in vulnerable situations to effectively combat and protect themselves from the global pandemic. The support is the delivery of essential equipment, medication, services and enable the countries to …
With over one million lives now lost to COVID-19 globally, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said that while the “agonizing milestone” is a “mind-numbing figure”, the world must never lose sight of each and every individual life. “They were fathers and mothers, wives and husbands, brothers and sisters, friends and colleagues,” he said in a …
After one week without COVID-19, Timor-Leste has just moved a new patient who suspected to have COVID-19, to the vera Cruz isolation centre. The patient is an Indonesian Citizen that has been complying with the 14 days of mandatory quarantine at the Farol Hotel quarantine site. “Today the Doctor and COVID-19 medical team have rapidly …
Timor-Leste Foreign Minister, Adaljiza Magno said today that, Ministry of Foreign Affairs is discussing the plan of opening the commercial flight from Malaysia to Dili once in every month. “We already have a request to open a commercial flight between Malaysia and Dili once a month, and the proposal has been discussed as a possibility, …
24 September 2020 UN Affairs The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity to focus on the importance of achieving a sustainable future for all people and the planet, the President of Timor-Leste said in his speech to the 75th session of the UN General Assembly on Thursday. For more information, please click on https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1073522
WHO’s online learning platform, OpenWHO.org now offers COVID-19 training courses in Tetum – Timor-Leste’s one of the two national languages. This is the first time when online learning resources have been made available on an international learning platform like OpenWHO.org. The first three courses for COVID-19 response that are now available in Tetum are – …
World Health Organization (WHO) Timor-Leste working closely with its headquarters in Geneva has developed a new course in the Tetum language — “Prevensaun no Kontrole Infesaun (PKI) ba Vírus COVID-19” Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) for COVID-19”. This is the fourth of 11 courses on COVID-19 to be made available in Tetum. These courses …
People are the centre of this Plan. The idea is not new, but it is just as important today as it was in 1990, when the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) launched the first Human Development Report, with exactly this purpose: to put people at the centre of the development process. That first UNDP Report …
The Minister of Economic Coordination, Joaquim Amaral has introduced a decree-law for approval on basic household staple foods, at the council of minister’s meeting today. The President of Council of Minister, Fidelis Manuel Leite Magalhães said the draft has also defined the entities that will support the economy ministry in the implementation of this program …
