“Please get your jab to save your families’
A LOCAL woman married to a Fijian who died in Fiji after she contracted the deadly COVID-19 Delta Variant has warned all Solomon Islanders prior to her death to get their vaccine to protect their families.
Jenny Davis, the sister of the deceased spoke to the Solomon Star in an exclusive interview yesterday confirmed that her sister died on the 3rd of August 2021 after she caught the Delta Variant in Fiji.
She said their family had mourned the loss of their sister. Ms. Davis said her sister had already warned them before she passed away.
“My family please get your COVID-19 vaccine to protect your families and your country, this COVID-19 Delta Variant is not a joke.
“I took my first jab but it’s too late now that I’ve contracted the deadly virus,” Ms. Davis reiterated what her sister told them a week before she passed on in Fiji.
Ms. Davis further added that her sister is a very healthy woman who lived a very happy life with his husband and four children.
“But the deadly virus took her early from all of us.
“The main thing we want to tell the people of Solomon Islands is that we must not take for granted all the health warnings we always receive from the government and our authorities,” she added.
She said it’s very sad because even her children and their dad could not see her in the hospital and worst still when she was buried they cannot even attend her funeral.
“This is the saddest thing the family of our beloved sister cannot fathom due to this deadly virus,” she said.
Ms. Davis said that her family in Fiji just have to visit their mother’s grave after the burial.
But the message is clear Ms. Davis said; “if we want to protect our families we have to take our jab.
“The Delta Variant is just close to us and we must prepare because its impacts are very huge and will cost our families and the country as a whole,” she added.
Solomon Star understands that COVID-19 related dates in Fiji are increasing every day, with hospital beds and facilities outnumbered, their economy being hit hard and frontline officers all affected as well.
Currently, the Fiji government has done away with testing and called on their citizens to get vaccinated so that they can open up their borders for economic activities.
“We do not want Fiji’s situation to happen to us so please in honour of late my sister I am calling on all the eligible citizens to get their vaccine to protect our families and the country as a whole,” she told the Solomon Star.
By ANDREW FANASIA
Newsroom, Honiara
