Tag: Pandemic

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...

By RNZ News Health Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand's latest case of covid-19 will be charged for breaching isolation and visiting a central Auckland...

By RNZ News The opposition National Party leader says he has written to the party's board asking them to remove MP Hamish Walker from the...

COMMENT: By Nasya Bahfen in Melbourne Australia's Victorian state government told returned travellers to quarantine for two weeks. Some broke the rules. It then paid for...

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...

By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News The State Services Minister says the government will do everything it can to track down who is...

From RNZ News Checkpoint David Clark is out and Chris Hipkins is in as New Zealand's new Health Minister until the election in September. Hipkins told...

By Zahra Karim Didarali in Jakarta The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has brought numerous challenges to the way journalists report and has limited the stories they’re...

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...

By Gordon Campbell, editor of Werewolf For most of the past week, any consumer of this country’s management of covid-19 would think New Zealand was...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Papua New Guinea government is adamant no immigration laws, airport and covid-19 protocols - including national security - were breached...

By Adelaide Sirox Kari in Port Moresby Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape says an aircraft with four Chinese businessmen on board had complied...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk New Zealand's "intransigence" over wanting to allow Australians in before New Zealanders out to the covid-free Pacific does not stand up...

Pacific Media Centre PNG Defence Force soldiers are undergoing mass testing for covid-19 while there is controlled access into Murray Barracks to reduce further possible...

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

ANALYSIS: By Selwyn Manning, editor of EveningReport.nz It all boils down to this: The timeline of latest revelations suggests National Party MPs placed their "want...

COMMENT: By Jane Patterson, RNZ News political editor Public confidence in New Zealand's border controls has been shattered. The obvious anger of the prime minister when...

Professor Sir David Skegg says New Zealand is endangering all the covid-19 gains made if new cases are allowed in at the borders such...

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

By RNZ News Two new cases of covid-19 in New Zealand were women aged in their 30s and 40s who visited a dying parent in...

By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch Thousands of people took part in the Black Lives Matter protests in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin today. Auckland's Aotea...