Relief has reached every affected community - Bainimarama

Teams clearing and disinfecting schools used as evacuation centres

Relief has reached every affected community - Bainimarama
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama. [Image: Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama/Facebook]

Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says relief has reached every affected community in the Northern and Eastern Divisions with more than 37,000 food ration packs and non-food items now in the hands of Fijian families.

He also says to ensure schools are ready to open for the new term, teams are clearing and disinfecting all schools used as evacuation centres to ready them to re-open.

Bainimarama says the road network is more or less back online, with 161 roads and four jetties re-opened.

He says all metered areas in the Northern and Eastern divisions have had water restored.

The Prime Minister says they are steadily restoring access to water everywhere, with another 12 trucks dispatched to the North to cart water to impacted areas.

He says more than 110 EFL personnel, materials and 40 vehicles departed Viti Levu last Thursday to assist with the restoration works in Labasa, Savusavu and Ovalau.

Bainimarama says power is being brought back online as safely as can be done.

He says around 900 households have received seedlings to help rehabilitate their damaged farms.

Bainimarama says that support will continue on a needs-only basis as assessments complete.

He says health teams have been busy preventing the spread of infectious diseases that all-too-often thrive in the aftermath of severe weather events.

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