Tag: Coronavirus
Covid-19: NZ ‘assessing health risk’ after Australia announces China traveller testing
RNZ News
Travellers from China to Australia will be required to have a negative pre-departure covid-19 test from January 5 -- and New Zealand says...
Long covid, long tail – long summer of infection concerns in...
RNZ News
With restrictions eased, public health warnings muted and mask wearing now almost non-existent, the risk of contracting covid-19 is still very real, particularly...
NZ covid inquiry must look at response to specific communities, Pasifika...
RNZ News
A Pasifika health leader hopes the Royal Commission into the Covid-19 pandemic will look into the equity of the response and resource allocation.
Prime...
Domestic violence, isolation hit Pacific women during pandemic, says USP survey
By Sri Krishnamurthi
While some women at the University of the South Pacific's 14 campuses found working from home enjoyable during the covid-19 pandemic, others...
NZ announces Royal Commission into government’s covid-19 response
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The New Zealand government has announced a Royal Commission into its covid-19 response.
The Commission will be chaired by Australia-based epidemiologist Professor Tony Blakely,...
NZ covid-19 traffic light system scrapped from midnight, says PM Jacinda...
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All mask wearing requirements in Aotearoa New Zealand -- except in healthcare and aged care -- will be scrapped, and household contacts will...
As covid cases drop, Marshall Islands praised for ‘unprecedented’ response
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro
United States-based medical doctors have praised the Marshall Islands for...
‘Omicron’s not done with us’: A year on from NZ’s longest...
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent
One year on from Aotearoa New Zealand's longest covid-19 lockdown, an epidemiologist says further lockdowns cannot be ruled...
WHO declares public health emergency for Marshall Islands
RNZ Pacific
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the covid outbreak in the Marshall Islands a Public Health Emergency.
A total of 571 new omicron...
Marshall Islands covid spread demonstrates super variant
By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor and RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro
The Marshall Islands is a live demonstration that the omicron BA.5 variant...
NZ’s first cruise ship since beginning of pandemic arrives – next...
RNZ News
The P&O Pacific Explorer has docked in at Queens Wharf in Auckland from Sydney, the first cruise ship to arrive in Aotearoa New...
Marshall Islands loses ‘covid-free’ status with 6 cases confirmed
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal in Majuro
The Marshall Islands lost its covid-free status yesterday when tests confirmed six positive cases...
Public health ‘patriot’ protesters march onto central Auckland streets
RNZ News
Protesters blocked roads in central Auckland this afternoon for the second time in two weeks, marching past the main entrance to the city's...
Despite what political leaders say, New Zealand’s health workforce is in...
ANALYSIS: By Paula Lorgelly, University of Auckland
Late last month, New Zealand Health Minister Andrew Little stated what most who work in health already know.
Healthcare...
Nick Rockel: ‘Over and out from me’ – Dr Ashley Bloomfield
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel
On Friday I watched Ashley Bloomfield’s last afternoon health update. After all we’ve been through over the past couple of years,...
Niue enters covid-19 red alert level as case numbers rise to...
RNZ Pacific
The government of Niue has announced the country will move to covid-19 alert level red after it recorded nine new cases of the...
NZ’s Ashley Bloomfield bows out – a look at his key...
RNZ News
After guiding New Zealand through two and a half years of a pandemic, Dr Ashley Bloomfield's time as Director-General of Health has come...
Micronesia to reopen borders despite covid community spread
RNZ Pacific
The Federated States of Micronesia will reopen its international borders on Monday.
President David Panuelo said anyone wishing to travel will need to be...
Tokelau keen to get its people stuck abroad back home again
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Plans are underway to help Tokelauans stuck abroad, mostly in New Zealand and Samoa, to return home.
The general manager...
Covid and reality: Do we care enough about the common good?
ANALYSIS: By Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University
The covid-19 pandemic has already generated its own mythology. In Britain, they talk of the “myth of the...
Pandemic effect on human rights ‘catastrophic’, says Samoan report
RNZ Pacific
Samoa's Ombudsman Luamanuvao Katalaina Sapolu says the human rights effects from the covid-19 pandemic have been catastrophic.
She has just submitted Samoa's eighth State...
‘We’ve politicised this issue too much’ – NZ expert calls for...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
A prominent New Zealand epidemiologist is calling for much wider mask mandates, saying the roll-out of free...