Tag: Infectious diseases

RNZ News A GPs advocacy group says that practices learned from the covid-19 pandemic, like staying home when sick or wearing masks in health facilities,...

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...

Pacific Media Centre Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) staff are calling for restraint and calm as a New Zealand family in isolation for Covid-19...

By Sri Krishnamurthi Former Director of Public Health Dr Colin Tukuitonga says it is incumbent on New Zealand to screen passengers travelling to and from...

By Marchio Irfan Gorbiano in Jakarta President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has announced that two Indonesians have tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the...

By RNZ News Some Chinese students are being rejected by their homestays in New Zealand over fears about the deadly coronavirus. Infections from the novel coronavirus...

Video report by RNZ Pacific. RNZ Pacific's Jamie Tahana reports In the Pacific, where several countries are already dealing with epidemics, some countries have taken extreme...

By RNZ News New Zealanders evacuated from Wuhan amid the coronavirus outbreak will be quarantined in Aotearoa - not on Christmas Island like the Australians. As...

Rappler editorial It’s not the virus. It’s not the Chinese flying into the Philippines. Our biggest enemy amid the Wuhan crisis is panic. Here's the situation:...

By Stanley Ove Jnr in Port Moresby The PNG Immigration and Citizenship Authority (PNGICA) has ordered a temporary shutdown of the Wutung border post with...

By Andrio Adiwibowo in Jakarta After beating the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemics in the past, we may...