Tag: covid-19
PNG surge in covid infections to 153 ‘expected’ and likely to...
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...
AJF slams ‘misguided’ Malaysian investigation into Al Jazeera report
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom (AJF) has called on the Malaysian government to desist its current investigation of Al Jazeera English...
Air Tahiti Nui flight attendant tests positive for covid-19 – second...
By RNZ Pacific
A flight attendant in French Polynesia has tested positive for covid-19 - the second Tahiti infection recorded in three days.
The government said...
Pacific launches talks about how to reopen amid covid pandemic
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The safe reopening of entry points into six Pacific Islands countries amid the covid-19 pandemic is being discussed at a meeting...
Another PNG health officer tests covid positive – national covid total...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea has one new case of the novel coronavirus covid-19 reported yesterday bringing total cases to 111, reports EMTV...
More covid cases in PNG take total to 91 – health...
By RNZ Pacific
Nineteen more cases of covid-19 have been confirmed in Papua New Guinea, taking the total number so far in the country to...
Noam Chomsky: Decades of ‘neoliberal plague’ left US unprepared for coronavirus...
Linguist and author Noam Chomsky says decades of neoliberal policies that shredded the social safety net and public institutions have left the country ill-prepared...
PNG’s Pruaitch urges focus on Papua border as covid deaths escalate
By Isaac Nicholas in Port Moresby
Thirty eight deaths in the covid-19 pandemic reported across the Papua New Guinea border in the Indonesian-ruled Papuan capital...
Outreach patrol brings covid info boost to remote Gulf villages in...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Remote communities in Papua New Guinea's south-western Gulf Province have welcomed an outreach patrol to several villages that has brought treatment...
74 health workers isolated in PNG’s Morobe after positive covid contact
By Scott Waide of EMTV News
Seventy-four health workers in Papua New Guinea's Morobe province have been isolated after coming in contact with a 35-year-old...
PNG coronavirus cases jump by record 23 as total now tops...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Twenty three new covid-19 cases have been confirmed in Papua New Guinea's National Capital District - the highest reported so far...
Port Moresby emergency ward chaos as medics refuse untested patients
By Adelaide Sirox Kari in Port Moresby
As Papua New Guinea's capital continues to record an increase in covid-19 cases, with seven new positive cases...
Most Filipinos remain stressed due to covid pandemic, says social survey
By Aika Rey in Manila
Most Filipinos remain stressed due to the coronavirus pandemic, pollster Social Weather Stations found in a survey earlier this month.
The...
Fiji police arrest 18 people for breach of covid curfew
By Talebula Kate in Suva
Eighteen people were arrested in Fiji last night for breach of the covid pandemic curfew restrictions from 11pm yesterday to...
Timor-Leste’s ongoing success in eradicating the coronavirus
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the country had managed to stamp out the coronavirus, it was met with...
Family charged over covid-19 isolation facility escape to attend NZ funeral
By RNZ News
Four teenagers who fled from a New Zealand managed isolation facility in Hamilton last night with their mother had returned to the...
PNG imposes nine new covid control measures as cases climb to...
By EMTV News
Papua New Guinea's Pandemic Controller David Manning has issued nine new control measures as the country's cases have increased to 31.
He said...
PNG rapid response team steps up Port Moresby tracing after covid...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's rapid response team of the National Capital District (NCD) is conducting thorough case investigation, contact tracing and testing...
Port Moresby hospital scales down services due to covid breach
By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Port Moresby General Hospital is scaling down its services due to covid-19 cases being detected on...
Papuan activists in Yogya protest against extended special autonomy
By IndoLeft News in Yogyakarta
Papuan students and activists have held a protest action against Special Autonomy
(Otsus) Chapter II at the zero kilometre point in...
Two more covid-19 cases in Port Moresby with targeted testing
More coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea. Video: EMTV News
By EMTV News
Papua New Guinea's National Command Center has announced two new covid-19 cases in...
Police chief to Manila democracy protesters – ‘Just do it online’
By Rambo Talabong in Manila
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Archie Gamboa has called on protesters preparing for rallies on President Rodrigo Duterte’s 2020...