Tag: covid-19
Unease builds over final Kanaky New Caledonia independence referendum
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
There is growing unease over the French decision to hold Kanaky New Caledonia's third and final independence referendum on...
NZ’s new covid traffic light settings unveiled – omicron variant in...
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced which regions will move into red and which into orange as the new traffic light...
Travel bans aren’t the answer to stopping new covid variant omicron
ANALYSIS: By Anthony Zwi, UNSW
There is global concern and widespread alarm at the discovery of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.529, which the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
Solomon Islands riots: International community monitoring ‘nervous’ calm
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
With no plans to evacuate their citizens from Honiara, the international community is closely monitoring the situation in the...
Pasifika communities in NZ reach ‘key vaccination milestones’
RNZ Pacific
Ninety percent of Pacific people in Aotearoa New Zealand have had their first covid-19 vaccine, while 11 district health boards (DHBs) have reached...
Media advocates tell of struggle for ‘survival and truth’ at Asia-Pacific...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Journalists and journalism are waging a global struggle for survival and for “truth” against fake news and alternative facts, say two...
Rappler chief editor and Asia-Pacific media keynotes at ‘pandemic’ forum
By Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia Pacific Report
A Filipina journalist who cut her teeth as a young reporter in the Marcos dictatorship years and now...
NZ to ease toughest border controls next year – traffic light...
RNZ News
New Zealand's most restrictive border controls will be eased early next year, the government announced today.
Most fully-vaccinated travellers into New Zealand would not be...
NZ must help Pacific fight vaccine misinformation, says researcher
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand, Australia and other nations in the Pacific need to do more to combat rampant vaccine misinformation in Pacific Island countries, which...
Former NZ prime minister Helen Clark chides global pandemic ‘failures’
RNZ News
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says the global handling of the covid-19 pandemic is marred with failures, gaps and delays.
Clark is...
‘Hard truth’ about NZ’s delta as PM ushers in covid traffic...
RNZ News
New Zealand will move into the covid-19 traffic light system at 11.59pm, Thursday, December 2, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today.
That is in...
Covid disinformation and extremism are on the rise in New Zealand....
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
The covid protest outside Parliament earlier this month served as a warning that Aotearoa New Zealand is not...
NZ reports 149 community covid cases as virus still spreads
RNZ News
New Zealand has reported 149 community cases of covid-19 in the country today, including nine outside Auckland.
In a statement, the Ministry of Health...
Vanuatu backs Kanak call to delay vote on independence in New...
RNZ Pacific
Vanuatu's leader is formally supporting the demand of Kanaks in New Caledonia for a delay in next month's third and final referendum on...
Chinese, Palestinian journalists and Pegasus Project win free press awards
RSF president Pierre Haski announces the 29th RSF Press Freedom Awards in Paris. Video: RSF
Reporters Without Borders
The 2021 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom...
Warning bells from NZ health experts, National over coping with covid...
By Jane Patterson, RNZ political editor, and Rowan Quinn, health correspondent
As New Zealand readies for more covid-19 cases, warnings about the ability of public...
NZ medical specialist describes ‘a health system overwhelmed’
RNZ Checkpoint
A New Zealand emergency medical specialist has written about their experience working at an Auckland hospital, issuing a warning ahead of yesterday's Auckland...
Record 222 new community cases of covid-19, one death in NZ
RNZ News
New Zealand reported a record 222 new community cases of covid-19 and one virus-related death today.
There are now 91 people in hospital and...
Hundreds of NZ health workers unvaccinated facing deadline
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent
About 2000 New Zealand district health board workers had not been vaccinated 15 hours before the deadline to...
Northland principal faces ‘vindictive’ abuse for backing vaccine mandate
By Ella Stewart, RNZ News reporter
A Northland high school principal says she has been accused of being "complicit in mass genocide" by people opposed...
NZ reports new covid case high of 207 as ‘clock ticking’...
RNZ News
An epidemiologist says New Zealand's record high covid-19 case numbers today and the spread across the North Island are a reminder that the...
Auckland mayor Phil Goff calls NZ anti-lockdown protesters ‘stupid’
RNZ News
Auckland mayor Phil Goff has hit out at anti-lockdown protesters who held up traffic on roads throughout the country today, describing their actions...