A growing coronavirus outbreak in Fiji has prompted the government to offer jobless citizens tools and cash to become farmers.
The pacific nation got through the first year of the pandemic without any significant outbreaks and just two virus deaths. However an outbreak of the delta variant two months ago has resulted in Fiji adding about two hundred and fifty new cases each day.
The government has so far resisted calls for a full lockdown, in part to try and protect an economy which has shrunk by nineteen percent last year due to the significant decrease in international tourism.