Tag: Pacific health

Sealord responds to international fishers covid-19 outbreak at Christchurch MIQ. Video: RNZ By RNZ News Some 11 cases of covid-19 have been confirmed at a New...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Asmat regency in Papua has decided to limit access to and from the area for 28 days, starting last Sunday, after...

By RNZ News The Director-General of Health says a ship now bound for Brisbane is believed to be the most likely source of transmission in...

By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse has tested positive for covid-19, prompting a deferral of today's appeal court hearing. Flosse and the current...

By RNZ News National Party leader Judith Collins has described obesity as a weakness and says people should not "blame systems for personal choices". She was...

By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's President Edouard Fritch says he has tested positive for covid-19 on his return from France. A government statement said that despite...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Aucklanders are being warned not to be caught napping again when it comes to the covid-19 pandemic. New Zealand's...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's opposition has called on the government to explain the paralysing martial law type restrictions that has crippled the...

By RNZ Pacific The covid-19 outbreak in French Polynesia has reached Tahiti's prison and infected 20 people. The French High Commission said that after two cases...

By Michael Field French Polynesian authorities are conceding the Pacific territory of 280,000 people will probably have 100,000 cases of covid-19 by the end of...

By RNZ News New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield announced no new cases of covid-19 yesterday. It was also revealed that Auckland is set...

By RNZ News Two new community cases revealed today in New Zealand are connected to a returnee who tested positive for covid-19 after completing the...

By RNZ News New Zealand today reported one new community case of covid-19 - the first in five days. There was no media conference today. In...

By RNZ News New Zealand reported no new cases of covid-19 today - for the first time since early August. There was no media conference today....

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A woman has died of the covid-19 coronavirus in Papua New Guinea, becoming the sixth fatality from the deadly virus in...

By Robert Iroga in Honiara Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare today has reassured the nation and parents of six students who have tested positive...

By RNZ News Auckland Mayor Phil Goff says people in the city are, by and large, following the rules and prosecution shouldn't be ruled out...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Flaws in Papua New Guinea's public health system and the medicine supply chain are because of poor management in...

By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia has recorded another 47 covid-19 cases, raising the tally to 820. Health officials report that 758 of them were recorded since...

By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News journalist New Zealand health authorities have reported a surge in the number of people returning to the country from India...

TRIBUTE: Dr Collin Tukuitonga farewells his mentor, Dr Joe Williams, who died on Friday night after a battle with covid-19.  I have a lot for...

By Rashneel Kumar in Avarua Former Cook Islands Prime Minister Dr Joe Williams died last night after a battle with coronavirus. He was 82. Dr Williams,...