Tag: Coronavirus

By Koroi Tadulala in Suva Fiji's Ministry of Health mobile fever clinic teams operating in the greater Suva area have screened 121,304 Fijians so far. The...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch The thin veneer of a seemingly robust New Zealand media was ripped off like a...

By RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, government ministers and public service chief executives will take a 20 percent pay cut for the...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Desperate times call for desperate measures and so it is with journalism schools throughout the Pacific...

ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw of Massey University New Zealand’s general election is currently set for September 19. Under ordinary circumstances, campaigning for the election and...

By John Gerritsen, education correspondent of RNZ News The second term of New Zealand's school year starts today, but nobody is going to class. Schools are...

By RNZ News Four more people have died from Covid-19 in New Zealand in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry has confirmed. Nine people have...

Pacific Media Watch The Covid-19 coronavirus is “exacerbating tensions” in Indonesia’s West Papua region and exposing the “shortcomings” of Jakarta government policy, warns a conflict...

Pacific Media Centre Fears are mounting over the safety of 1040 crew members - many of them from the Philippines - on board the Ruby...

ANALYSIS: By Tobias R. Keller and Rosalie Gillett of the Queensland University of Technology Even before the coronavirus arrived to turn life upside down and...

Pacific Media Centre The Chinese consul in French Polynesia, Shen Zhiliang, has described the new coronavirus causing the global Covid-19 pandemic as "our common enemy”. He...

By Maggie Boyle in Suva Fiji's Health Minister Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete says that with mobile health clinics "hitting the ground" in Suva, the aim is...

By RNZ News New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield today confirmed the Health Ministry is "actively looking" at the rules around people visiting...

By Stefan Armbruster of SBS News Australia's Human Rights Commissioner has called for the "urgent" and "immediate" release of immigration detainees in line with recommendations...

PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. The lockdown breaches...

Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s Police Minister Bryan Kramer has published an extraordinary attack on two leading journalists over their reporting of the Covid-19...

By RNZ News New Zealand's number of recovered cases of Covid-19 continues to be higher than the number of new infections, the Director-General of Health...

By Tess Newton Cain and Dan McGarry There are now more than 220 confirmed cases across the Pacific Islands region (excluding Australia and New Zealand)...

By Ritika Pratap in Suva Fiji police have arrested 193 people in the last 24 hours for violations of the country's coronavirus lockdown and the...

By RNZ News New Zealand has had two further deaths because of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, doubling the death toll to four, says Director of...

By Agung Sandy Lesmana and Ria Rizki Nirmala Sari in Jayapura The Free Papua Organisation (OPM) has offered a ceasefire in the independence struggle against...

By Antónia Gusmão in Dili Timor-Leste has registered its second case of Covid-19, the Integrated Crisis Management Centre (CIGC) has confirmed. The patient – a Timorese...