Tag: Delta variant

By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea has dispatched a team of government officials to investigate a covid-19 delta variant threat in its...

RNZ News Covid-19 numbers dropped slightly today to 20 new community cases, while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a deal with Denmark to bring 500,000...

RNZ News New Zealand has reported 23 new cases of covid-19 in the community today, more than double the amount reported yesterday. There was no media...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTING: By Justin Latif, Local Democracy Reporter One of the positive cases from New Zealand's Assemblies of God Church of Samoa cluster has...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has recorded its first death of the Covid-19 pandemic. The fatality was announced by territorial President Louis Mapou today in a televised...

RNZ Pacific The New Caledonian government has appealed to all medical and paramedical staff, including veterinarians, to help in the fight against covid-19. Sixty-six cases have...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk France has declared a health emergency in New Caledonia after covid-19 was detected in the community, RNZ Pacific reports. The state of...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has detected three cases of Covid-19 in the community and ordered a two-week lockdown from midday today. The three cases are not...

RNZ Pacific New Zealand has 82 new community cases of covid-19 today, the Ministry of Health has confirmed. There was no media conference from the government...

RNZ News All of New Zealand will remain in lockdown until at least Friday, while Auckland will remain in level 4 until at least 31...

RNZ News New Zealand has reported 21 new community cases of covid-19 today - 20 in Auckland and one in Wellington. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley...

RNZ News New Zealand has reported 21 new covid-19 community cases in the country today. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director of Public Health Dr Caroline...

RNZ News New Zealand's current cases of covid-19 -- the first community outbreak for six months -- have been linked to a traveller who arrived...

RNZ News New Zealand police are out again today enforcing the rules of the level 4 lockdown concentrating on dealing with any illegal gatherings, ensuring...

RNZ News New Zealand's streets were largely silent today as the three-day nationwide alert-level 4 lockdown kicked in with 10 cases of covid-19 reported so...

RNZ News An Auckland University of Technology (AUT) student who was at a lecture yesterday is among the 10 new cases of covid-19 reported in...

Today's New Zealand covid-19 media briefing. Video: RNZ News RNZ News The Auckland Hospital nurse who has tested positive for covid-19 worked four shifts not knowing...

Cook Islands News Cook Islands has suspended the travel bubble with New Zealand after NZ officials reported new covid-19 community cases in Auckland. Four new community...

RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced an alert-level 4 lockdown starting at 11.59pm tonight for seven days in Auckland and Coromandel,...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva Two days after President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Mā’ohi Nui last month, where the French leader urged the local population...

By Jordan Bond , RNZ News reporter A New Zealand public health expert says the highly transmissible delta variant of covid-19 could prompt a local...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby A female nurse in Madang is the first local Papua New Guinean to be tested positive for the highly...