Tag: Covid cases

RNZ News Twenty five new cases of covid-19 have been reported in the New Zealand community today, including 10 confirmed omicron cases. In a statement, the...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby A Papua New Guinean doctor, who is alleged to be covid-19 positive, has been arrested and charged in Solomon...

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...

By Robert Iroga in Honiara The Solomon islands government endorsed a 60 hour lockdown in the capital Honiara last night after an urgent special national...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has appealed to his fellow Solomon Islanders at the western border not to...

Governor Lou Leon Guerrero presents her covid update message ... “Our focus remains on preventing severe illness, preventing increased hospitalisation and saving lives.” Video:...

By Rohit Deo in Suva Fiji's Ministry of Health and Medical Services has reported 1280 new covid-19 community cases since the last update on January...

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 Pacific Fiji's Health Ministry is concerned that people are not taking the new omicron variant of the coronavirus seriously. Fiji reported two cases of the...

RNZ News New Zealand has reached a milestone of eight million vaccine doses administered. The milestone was featured in the Ministry of Health's covid-19 update today. The...

By Jake McKee, RNZ News reporter New Zealand's longest covid-19 hospitalisation in Auckland and Northland during the first three months of the current outbreak was...

RNZ News New Zealand's first case of omicron has been identified, as the country hit its 90 percent full vaccination target today, children between five...

RNZ News Aucklanders are travelling out of New Zealand's largest city today as the border around Tāmaki Makaurau opens for the first time in 120...

RNZ News An anti-vax protest that shut down the centre of Newmarket in New Zealand's largest city Auckland today may have cost local businesses hundreds...

By John Gerritsen, RNZ News education reporter New Zealand Education Ministry figures indicate just 2.4 percent of school teachers -- about 1400 people -- have...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...