Tag: facemasks
NZ moves to orange: Experts respond to change in traffic light...
RNZ News
Covid-19 restrictions for all of New Zealand will ease from midnight tonight but a leading epidemiologist says the country is divided over its...
Health chief’s resignation: ‘He felt the pressure along with the rest...
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent
Health workers in Aotearoa New Zealand are thanking Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield for his work stopping...
NZ’s omicron outbreak: PM Ardern heralds changes to traffic light strategy
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed cabinet's decisions about when and how covid-19 restrictions will be eased.
She said the traffic light...
NZ capital’s residents fed up with Parliament protest as new covid...
RNZ News
Some residents of the area around New Zealand's Parliament in the capital Wellington are worried about leaving their houses with protesters outside, while...
‘We’ve had enough’ call to NZ capital protesters from city ‘who’s...
RNZ News
Almost 30 community leaders of New Zealand's capital Wellington have banded together to urge an immediate end of the illegal protest activities at...
Papua New Guineans defy national mask-wearing rules in spite of covid
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby
In spite of Papua New Guinea's mandatory mask-wearing requirement under the National Pandemic Act 2020, many public servants attending...
Skegg warns against ‘complacency, slackness’ over Auckland covid fears
By RNZ News
Epidemiologist Sir David Skegg is concerned at the level of complacency the public and government is showing towards covid-19 since the country...
Bryan Bruce: On trolls, haters, conspiracy theorists and health stupidity
COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce
The other day I wrote a post on my blog which invited people to: "Take care of others by taking care...
PNG schools follow no-mask-no-entry rule amid growing covid cases
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Schools in Papua New Guinea's National Capital District resumed yesterday, with strict covid-19 protocols in place, and with several turning away...
PNG courts reopen with ‘new normal’ of no-mask-no-entry policy
By Todagia Kelola in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's National and Supreme Court sittings in Waigani, NCD, resumed under the “new normal” yesterday - no...