Tag: Pacific health
Contact tracing begins for first Bougainville covid case
By Patrick Makis in Buka
Contact tracing has begun for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville's first covid-19 case.
The 22-year-old male, who had returned from Port...
100 days without covid-19: how NZ got rid of a globally...
By Michael Baker, University of Otago; Amanda Kvalsvig, University of Otago, and Nick Wilson, University of Otago
Tomorrow, New Zealand will mark 100 days without...
Port Moresby may need to expand covid isolation facilities, warns doctor
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby
Port Moresby may need to expand its covid-19 isolation facilities quickly and effectively in case a big spike in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
PNG suffers first reported covid-linked death – woman with breast cancer
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A 48-year-old woman from Papua New Guinea's Central Province who has died after a battle with stage 4 breast cancer has...
PNG covid response controller warns public against fake news
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's Controller of the National Pandemic Response and Police Commissioner, David Manning, has told the public that a rumour...
Fiji records two new border quarantine covid cases – national total...
By Koroi Tadulala in Suva
Fiji has recorded two new border quarantine cases of covid-19 coronavirus.
Both patients are Fiji citizens on a flight from India. This...
Fiji government tries to allay covid concerns as 160 troops return
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji's health minister is trying to allay concerns about the health of more than 160 soldiers who returned from the Middle East...
PNG claims ‘nothing sinister’, no broken protocols on Chinese flight
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Papua New Guinea government is adamant no immigration laws, airport and covid-19 protocols - including national security - were breached...