Tag: Coronavirus

By Katrina Tanirau in Avarua Some Cook Islanders are expressing anger at the failure to implement stronger border control public health measures in response to...

By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific correspondent Pasifika family or just an Auckland family? There has been much debate over whether it was wrong to identify...

By RNZ News The lack of testing of staff at New Zealand's border is extraordinary, a prominent epidemiologist says. Health officials are frantically trying to trace...

By Grant Duncan, Massey University If New Zealand can do grocery shopping under lockdown, we can vote under lockdown too. As much as supermarkets and pharmacies,...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk French authorities say 50 gendarmes who had been deployed in French Polynesia have tested positive to covid-19 after their return to...

By RNZ News New Zealand Health Minister Chris Hipkins says there are more covid-19 cases related to the Auckland cluster which will be revealed at...

By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch Pacific health specialist Dr Collin Tukuitonga is worried that the latest community transmission of covid-19 in Aotearoa New...

By RNZ News New Zealand has 13 new cases of covid-19 in the community in Auckland today and one in managed isolation. Director-General of Health Dr...

By Patricia Kamo in Port Moresby A bus driver in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby says it is hard to force passengers to wear...

By RNZ News Senior Labour MP Grant Robertson has rejected opposition National's suggestion that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern step back from announcements on covid-19 alert...

By RNZ News QR app codes are now mandatory for New Zealand businesses and services, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley...

By The Bougainvillean Bougainville is heading to the polls today amid its first case of the covid-19 in the fourth general election of Papua New Guinea’s...

By RNZ News People calling New Zealand's covid-19 healthline were facing long waits on hold today as the phone line struggles with high demand as...

By RNZ News Four positive cases of covid-19 outside of managed isolation or quarantine have been reported and New Zealand has activated a resurgence plan. After...

By RNZ News New Zealand has reported one new case of covid-19 in managed isolation today, the Ministry of Health has confirmed. Director-General of Health Dr...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk As Guam's health statistics continue to mount, covid-19 has hit the first family, reports the Pacific Island Times. Following Governor Lou Leon...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Radio 95bFM The Wire's Zoë Larsen Cumming and Justin Wong talked to Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie today about...

By EMTV News Lihir is the second mine in Papua New Guinea to report a confirmed covid-19 case as the national total of infections reached...

By Patrick Makis in Buka Contact tracing has begun for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville's first covid-19 case. The 22-year-old male, who had returned from Port...

By Michael Baker, University of Otago; Amanda Kvalsvig, University of Otago, and Nick Wilson, University of Otago Tomorrow, New Zealand will mark 100 days without...

By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Port Moresby may need to expand its covid-19 isolation facilities quickly and effectively in case a big spike in...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A medical authority has warned that the spike in covid-19 cases in Papua New Guinea is to be expected and could...