Tag: Pacific health

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk New Zealand's coronavirus reality check last week is a "timely wake-up call" crucial to moving towards a transtasman travel bubble, says...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Papua New Guinea government has announced a ninth covid-19 case in the country, and this has since been confirmed by...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says while Australia and New Zealand work out their Trans-Tasman bubble, Fiji’s equal greater success against the...

By Shaun Hendy; Alex James of University of Canterbury; Audrey Lustig of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Michael Plank of University of Canterbury; Nicholas...

By Michael Plank of the University of Canterbury; Alex James of the University of Canterbury; Audrey Lustig of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Nicholas...

By Voice of Papua While the delay in the Indonesian government response to the covid-19 corona virus is disappointing, Papua's provincial government needs to be...

By RNZ News New Zealand has reported no new cases of covid-19 coronavirus today, but the death toll has risen to 22 to include a...

Pacific Media Centre The dramatic daily increase of covid-19 coronavirus cases in West Papua poses a "great threat" to Papua New Guinea, says the country's...

By RNZ News It is essential for the health of people worldwide that a yet-to-be-discovered vaccine for covid-19 coronavirus is widely available, says former New...

By Robert Baird in Dili Timor-Leste has no active cases of covid-19 for the first time since its first confirmed case on March 21, say...

By RNZ News The state of emergency across New Zealand has been lifted on the eve of alert level 2 - putting the country in...

By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's ruling Tapura Huiraatira party has responded with anger to a radio interview with one of the party's two members of...

Pacific Media Watch The regent of Mimika in Papua has urged President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to temporarily close a mine in the regency owned by...

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...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced today a staggered move for New Zealand into alert level 2 starting on Thursday, with schools and...

By RNZ News New Zealand has reported another two new confirmed cases of covid-19 in the global coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Health has revealed. There...

By Leigh-Marama McLachlan, Māori affairs correspondent of RNZ News There has been a surge in the rate of Māori being tested for the covid-19 coronavirus...

By Clifford Faiparik in Port Moresby Repatriation of about 120 Papua New Guinea citizens from the Papua province of Indonesia to West Sepik under the...

By Hortencio Sanchez in Dili Foreign Minister Dionísio Babo Soares has confirmed that an expatriate Timorese woman living in Northern Ireland has become Timor-Leste’s first...

By Jane Patterson is political editor of RNZ News New Zealand may allow international students to come to this country under quarantine conditions, before the...

By RNZ News New Zealand has reported two new cases of covid-19 in the coronavirus pandemic in the past 24 hours and one further death,...

By RNZ News The leaders of New Zealand and Australia have agreed to ease travel restrictions between the two countries as soon as it is...