Tag: Pacific health

By Robert Iroga in Honiara Tulagi in the Central Islands province of Solomon islands is the first provincial capital to ban the sale of betel...

Governor Lou Leon Guerrero presents her covid update message ... “Our focus remains on preventing severe illness, preventing increased hospitalisation and saving lives.” Video:...

RNZ Pacific Pacific Island New Zealanders are now 90 percent fully vaccinated against covid-19, and a public health expert is urging them to keep up...

Tagata Pasifika Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva is the first Pacific person ever to be promoted to the highest professorial status of distinguished professor. The award-winning Fiji-born...

RNZ Pacific A New Zealand medical and logistics support team with essential supplies to assist Papua New Guinea with its covid-19 crisis has departed New...

RNZ Pacific The Vanuatu covid task force has confirmed that two arrivals from New Caleldonia have covid-19. But the organisation says Vanuatu remains free of any...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s biggest referral hospital has reached a crisis point as the covid-19 pandemic positivity rate surged drastically...

RNZ Pacific A Pacific public health expert says a premature transition of covid-19 restrictions in New Zealand could be lethal for Māori and Pasifika communities. The...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific deputy news editor Experts are warning that development gains across the Pacific region over the past 10 years could be...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Gorethy Kenneth of the PNG Post-Courier in Goroka, Papua New Guinea The flowers outside the building are in full bloom -- green,...

By Rita Peki in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea Two deaths with two patients in critical condition is the status at one of Papua New...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia recorded 16 covid-19 deaths yesterday -- the highest single day total since the delta strain of the virus arrived in the...

COMMENTARY: By Glen Johnson On August 17, a 58-year-old man from Auckland became symptomatic and tested positive for covid-19. It was New Zealand’s first community...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk French High Commissioner Patrice Faure in New Caledonia has declared an eight hour curfew for 15 days from tonight as health...

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...

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 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 New Caledonia has declared all schools in the Southern province closed for two weeks from tomorrow after health authorities reported at...

By Rohit Deo in Suva Fiji health authorities report that there are currently 204 covid-19 patients admitted at the country's hospitals. According to the Ministry of...

RNZ Pacific Pacific health providers say a major New Zealand government funding boost is not just a recognition of the critical role they play in...

RNZ Pacific Eight more people have died from covid-19 in Fiji, taking the death toll past 500. The Fiji government also confirmed 290 new cases for...

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...