Retired nurses

Vanuatu wants retired nurses to plug Covid induced staff crisis

It has also identified facilities in Port Vila and throughout the country that will become isolation sites to combat Covid-19, including the national stadium, the nursing school and a fitness centre.

The latest official figures show 128 active cases of Covid, including 59 new ones as of Thursday.

Three are on Sanma and the rest on Efate.

Three people are in hospital with one critical.

The entire country remains on Alert Level 3 and all inward flights have been suspended for the next month.