Tag: Coronavirus
Fiji government accused of ‘losing plot’ as covid cases soar past...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Opposition National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad has accused the Fiji government of "losing the plot" and "meekly surrendering" its...
Pleas for Fijians to take covid-19 more seriously with 274 more...
RNZ Pacific
Health authorities in Fiji have confirmed 274 infections of covid-19 in the 24-hour period ending at 8am today as they have warned people...
NZ has managed to dodge the covid-19 bullet, again. Here’s why
ANALYSIS: By Arindam Basu, University of Canterbury
New Zealand has avoided community transmission, even though an Australian visitor tested positive for the delta variant which...
Four new deaths as Fiji records hundreds more covid cases
RNZ Pacific
Four more people have died as Fiji recorded 312 new covid-19 cases in the 24 hours ending at 8am yesterday.
The Health Ministry said...
PNG, Fiji situation ‘going backwards’ over covid, warns NZ health expert
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
Papua New Guinea and Fiji are among several countries in the region going backwards in their fight against the...
Fiji reports 241 new covid cases and one death – pastors...
By Timoci Vula in Suva
Fiji has reported 241 new cases of covid-19 infections and one death in the 24-hour period ending at 8am yesterday.
Health...
Fears of covid-19 ‘time bomb’ of sorcery accusations, violence in PNG
SPECIAL REPORT: RNZ Pacific
WARNING: This article contains graphic content that some readers may find disturbing.
Unexplained deaths spark sorcery claims, torture and murder, as fears...
Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation
Facebook News
Facebook has today launched a public education campaign to help people in five Pacific Island countries and territories learn how to identify and...
Fiji police arrest six teenagers among 56 caught in covid curfew...
By Talebula Kate in Suva
Six teenagers were among 56 people arrested by Fiji police in the past 24 hrs for failure to comply with...
Covid-19: ‘We’re not in the clear yet’, epidemiologist warns NZ
RNZ News
It will take a few more days before New Zealand can be said to have dodged a bullet over the latest covid-19 scare,...
Wellington travellers to Rarotonga offloaded ‘in error’ over covid scare
By Emmanuel Samoglou in Avarua, Cook Islands
Cook Islands Te Marae Ora Ministry of Health has apologised to passengers who were offloaded in error on...
Fiji covid-19 death toll still climbs – woman dies at 34...
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva
Three more people with covid-19 have died in Fiji in the last 24 hours -- one of...
Indonesia vs covid – ‘it’s like fighting a war without a...
By Tsarina Maharani in Jakarta
The initiator of the citizen-based reporting coalition Lapor Covid-19 (Report Covid-19), Ahmad Arif, says the Indonesian public is facing the...
Fiji government must give ‘critical’ covid-19 crisis timeline, says lawyer
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva
The Fiji government and other health experts must give the country a covid-19 crisis timeline, says prominent lawyer Richard Naidu.
He...
Pacific correspondent Dreaver says Fiji leader ‘missing in action’ in covid...
Fiji's infrastructure could collapse if the people continue to take covid health advisories lightly, according to the United Nations resident coordinator. Video: TVNZ Breakfast
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Fiji may be facing heavy covid disaster within month, warns health...
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
Fiji could face around 600 covid-19 deaths within about eight weeks, and 50,000 active cases, unless decisive government-led...
Covid infections in Fiji soar with record 279 cases – four...
By Timoci Vula in Suva
Fiji has reported its highest daily total of positive covid-19 infections with 279 cases reported as of 8am today as...
NZ’s capital moves to covid alert level 2 after Sydney tourist...
RNZ News
The Wellington region moved to alert level 2 at 6pm today after an Australian tourist who visited the New Zealand capital on the...
NZ considers possible lockdown in Wellington over covid case, says Bloomfield
RNZ News
New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says health authorities are considering a possible lockdown in the capital Wellington after a visitor...
Fiji records two covid deaths amid record 180 new cases
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva
Fiji's covid19 case count broke records again yesterday as medical authorities recorded another two deaths at the...
Duterte threatens to jail Filipinos who refuse getting vaccinated
By Pia Ranada in Manila
What is Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's solution to vaccine hesitancy among Filipinos? Threaten them with jail time.
Duterte, in a meeting...
126 new Fiji covid infections with another death as cases still...
By Koroi Tadulala, FBC News journalist
Fiji recorded 126 new cases of covid-19 in the 24-hour period ending at 8am yesterday with another death as...