Tag: Border protocols
Covid-19: Border to reopen for New Zealanders end of February
RNZ News
New Zealanders in Australia will be able to return home by the end of the month under a five-stage reopening plan announced by...
Lives ‘more important than livelihoods’ over borders, says Fiji MP
By Luke Nacei in Suva
Opposition whip Lynda Tabuya says Fiji should have taken its cue from Australia and delayed the opening of its borders...
NZ to ease toughest border controls next year – traffic light...
RNZ News
New Zealand's most restrictive border controls will be eased early next year, the government announced today.
Most fully-vaccinated travellers into New Zealand would not be...
Indonesia, PNG hold talks over possible reopening of border
RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea and neighbouring Indonesia have been discussing a potential reopening of their shared border.
The border was officially closed early last year...
Fiji covid-19 patient being flown to NZ for treatment in about-turn
RNZ Pacific
A covid-19 positive patient is being flown to New Zealand from Fiji today despite an earlier decision by the Ministry of Health to...
Covid delta strain reaches PNG via cargo ship from Indonesia
By Godwin Eki in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea has been hit with a positive delta variant case of covid-19 for the first time, Deputy...
Fiji breach at quarantine ‘an incident waiting to happen’ as new...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Fiji Health Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Dr James Fong says the breach at the quarantine facility in Nadi was an incident waiting...
Bainimarama blames ‘protocol breach’ for second Fiji community covid case
By Praneeta Prakash in Suva
Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says a breach in protocol in relation to the 53-year-old woman now testing positive of...
‘Impose stricter quarantine measures’, epidemiologist tells NZ
By RNZ News
The New Zealand government should impose a week-long home quarantine for returnees after they have left managed isolation facilities to reduce the...
NZ detains three German yachties in Bay of Islands for defying...
By RNZ News
Three German yachtsmen - two men and a woman - have been detained after arriving in the Bay of Islands, in breach...
PNG says 175 returning workers from China followed protocols – 271...
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
The Papua New Guinea government has clarified that 175 workers from China who have arrived in Port Moresby from...