Tag: Coronavirus

RNZ Pacific Three more people have died of covid-19 in Solomon Islands raising the national tally to five. Health authorities confirmed the country's first two deaths...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific regional correspondent The Kiribati Health Ministry has confirmed that the atoll island nation has surpassed 100 covid-19 cases after it...

By Jane Patterson, RNZ News political editor New Zealand could be facing 50,000 daily omicron infections by Waitangi weekend, according to modelling by US-based health...

By Luke Rawalai in Suva Fiji has recorded 987 covid-19 cases, says Ministry of Health permanent secretary Dr James Fong who says the latest deaths...

RNZ News New Zealand does not have enough nurses or ICU beds, warn healthcare figures as their workforce braces for omicron. The College of Critical Care...

RNZ News People should do everything they can against omicron, but it is likely large numbers will be infected, New Zealand's Covid-19 Response Minister says. Speaking...

By Dio Suhenda in Jakarta More than a month after the omicron variant was first discovered in Indonesia, the highly transmissible but less fatal variant...

RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that the whole of New Zealand will move into the red light covid-19 setting at midnight tonight...

By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is warning New Zealand's covid-19 case numbers in 2022 will be unlike anything seen...

RNZ Pacific An estimated 1000 people in New Caledonia joined a protest march against the French government's policies to fight the pandemic. The unauthorised march in...

By Jean Bell, RNZ News journalist New Zealand covid-19 experts are nervously observing an ever-increasing number of cases at the border, as the threat of...

By Niva Chittock, RNZ News Reporter New Zealand police are investigating an anti-vaccine protest attended by Destiny Church leader pastor Brian Tamaki. A Destiny Church spokesperson...

By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist The Australian government is assisting its citizens stranded in Fiji who also claimed they were mistreated by locals --...

RNZ News Rising covid-19 cases at the border are increasing the risk of the omicron variant spreading in Aotearoa but a leading epidemiologist says the...

By Giff Johnson, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro The US Army ignored agreed-to covid prevention rules for entry into the Marshall Islands this week and...

By Hamish MacLean in Dunedin University of Otago covid-19 experts are not immune to the increasingly vitriolic attacks dished out to scientists commenting on New...

By Josefa Babitu in Suva Fiji is bracing for a third wave of the covid-19 virus after tests have confirmed the presence of the omicron...

By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji parents are advised not to send their children to school today if they are not feeling well as the...

ANALYSIS: By Gordon Campbell in Wellington Success can be its own worst enemy. If the plane doesn’t crash or the ship doesn’t sink, that doesn’t...

RNZ Pacific Pacific Island New Zealanders are now 90 percent fully vaccinated against covid-19, and a public health expert is urging them to keep up...

RNZ News As some North Island regions moved to the orange traffic light setting at 11.59pm last night, New Zealand has now found two omicron...

RNZ News New Zealand's Ministry of Health has confirmed that a border-related case with the omicron variant was briefly active in the community in the...