Tag: Coronavirus

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

RNZ News Former Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says his apology to journalist Charlotte Bellis does not extend to the Aotearoa New Zealand government's MIQ...

By Sheryl Lal and Akansha Narayan in Nadi, Fiji Although Fiji was unaffected by the first wave of covid-19, its tourism sector -- the lifeblood...

RNZ News Aotearoa New Zealand has reported 9570 new community cases of covid-19 and a further 32 deaths today, bringing total publicly recorded deaths with...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Striking New Zealand health workers have picketed around the country, saying they are fed up with being underpaid...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that she has tested positive for covid-19. Her daughter Neve tested positive on Wednesday, she added in...

RNZ News New Zealand reported 7970 new cases of covid-19 in the community and 28 further deaths today, a day after cases in the country...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Wearing glasses or getting a runny nose is enough to qualify for a mask exemption under current New...

RNZ Pacific Cook Islands has reported the country's first covid-19 pandemic death. The 63-year-old woman died on the way to hospital on the island of Aitutaki,...

COMMENTARY: By Professor Rod Jackson In a recent article (Weekend Herald, April 16) John Roughan wrote that the covid-19 pandemic has been an anticlimax in...

By Soumya Bhamidipati, RNZ News journalist The orange light pandemic setting in Aotearoa New Zealand has brought a sense of relief for parents, as the...

RNZ News Eleven 11 more people have died from covid-19, and 6242 more community cases have been detected, New Zealand health authorities say. The Ministry of...

RNZ News For the first time since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, Auckland does not have the most new daily community cases reported. The Ministry...

RNZ News Covid-19 restrictions for all of New Zealand will ease from midnight tonight but a leading epidemiologist says the country is divided over its...

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner David Manning -- who is also head of the country's Covid-19 National Control Centre -- has placed United...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Health workers in Aotearoa New Zealand are thanking Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield for his work stopping...