Tag: Coronavirus

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk New Zealand's leading daily newspaper today published an editorial exposing the "unfairness" of global media criticism of Australasian responses to covid-19,...

COMMENTARY: By Dr Mark Craig in defence of New Zealand's dedicated managed isolation and quarantine team and facilities as the country braces for omicron. As...

RNZ News Police handcuffed three people after protesters today tried to push through a barrier on the grounds of New Zealand's Parliament -- known as...

RNZ News More than 50 police have formed a ring around the front of New Zealand's Parliament today edging up to a line of protesters...

RNZ Pacific Several hundred more cases of covid in Solomon Islands ... Kiribati records first covid death ...nearly 12,000 in isolation in New Caledonia ......

RNZ News After a record number of covid-19 cases were reported on Saturday, New Zealand's prime minister believes the country's omicron peak may be in...

By Kim Moodie, RNZ News reporter A public health expert is urging New Zealanders to keep up the testing momentum, as testing rates take a...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's covid-19 outbreak continues to spread with almost 10,000 active cases. This includes 1289 new infections detected over the preceding 24 hours. Twenty five...

By Robert Iroga in Honiara A team of four experts from China have arrived in Honiara for on-site feasibility studies on two projects amid the...

RNZ News New Zealand has recorded its highest number of community cases in one day, with 243 new cases reported today. The previous highest number of...

By Melisha Yafoi in Port Moresby Air travellers were left stranded and fuming country-wide as airlines Air Niugini and PNG Air hit a rough patch...

ANALYSIS: By Peter Davis With the arrival of the omicron variant on our shores, it is hard to believe, judging by the media coverage --...

By Finau Fonua and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists Three new covid-19 cases have been confirmed in the kingdom of Tonga bringing the total number...

RNZ News New Zealand is shortening the gap between second and third doses of the covid-19 vaccine from four months to three, the government has...

ANALYSIS: By Matthew Hobbs, University of Canterbury; Anna Howe, University of Auckland, and Lukas Marek, University of Canterbury Within a month of the first community...

RNZ Pacific The kingdom of Tonga will go into nationwide lockdown from 6pm tonight. Speaking via Tongan radio, Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni and Minister of Health...

By Luke Rawalai in Suva Changing daily habits will be the difficult issue to address when creating awareness in Fiji against non-communicable disease (NCDs), says...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, RNZ Pacific digital journalist South Seas Healthcare Trust chief executive Lemalu Silao Vaisola says people are tired of covid-19 rather than complacent...

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist Concern is growing around low covid-19 vaccine rates in the Pacific. People in developing nations are generally missing out due...

RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is self-isolating after being deemed a close contact of a positive covid case. She was on the same...

RNZ News Omicron has ripped through the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria, exposing testing regimes, decimating supply chains and causing the country's...

RNZ Pacific Three more children have died from covid-19 in Fiji, taking the death toll since the pandemic hit the country in 2020 to 791. The...