Tag: Pandemic

By RNZ Pacific Wallis and Futuna has been rushed into a two-week lockdown from this morning after yesterday's tests revealed another 12 covid-19 positive cases...

Asia Pacific Report New Caledonia, one of the Pacific territories to have avoided the covid-19 pandemic so far, is to go into strict two-week lockdown...

Asia Pacific Report Papua New Guinea's Supreme and National Courts in Port Moresby will be partially closed for a week beginning yesterday after a judge...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it is hard not to feel like New Zealand is having a run of bad luck, with...

By RNZ News New Zealand's Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says the actions of the Destiny Church leaders in leaving Auckland on the eve of...

By RNZ News The New Zealand government is being told to roll out clearer and smarter communications around the latest covid-19 community outbreak, to make...

By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Governor Powes Parkop says there will be no lockdown in Papua New Guinea's National Capital District (NCD) despite a...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she gets that everyone is angry over the latest New Zealand community covid-19 cases after it emerged...

By RNZ News Auckland Mayor Phil Goff wants tougher measures against people ignoring New Zealand's covid-19 health guidance. He said it was frustrating to learn one...

By RNZ News Auckland will move to alert level 3 for a week at 6am tomorrow morning after two new covid-19 community cases in New...

Asia Pacific Report Indonesian police have asked participants at a protest action against Special Autonomy (Otsus) in Papua to take covid-19 rapid tests at the...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Sheldon Chanel in Suva Much of archipelagic Fiji was forced indoors by lockdowns and a nationwide curfew in March last year when...

By RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinean health authorities are struggling to gauge the extent of the country's latest covid-19 outbreak. More than 100 new confirmed cases...

By RNZ News Papua New Guinea's covid-19 cases have jumped to more than 1000, including the National Pandemic Controller and members of his family. Eight new...

ANALYSIS: By Diana Bossio, Swinburne University of Technology Facebook this week made good on its threat to block Australians from accessing or posting news content....

ANALYSIS: By David Welch, University of Auckland; Jemma Geoghegan, University of Otago; Joep de Ligt, ESR, and Nigel French, Massey University New variants of SARS-CoV-2...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Nervous Papatoetoe High School students were lining up today in big numbers to get tested, saying they want...

By RNZ News The exact source of Auckland community cases of covid-19 in the latest New Zealand outbreak is the "big unknown" and there could...

By Ihsanuddin in Jakarta Jakarta Indonesian Doctor's Association (IDI) chairperson Slamet Budiarto has challenged a statement by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo who has claimed that...

By RNZ Pacific Tourism is set to suffer a sharp decline in French Polynesia as the territory is about to close the border on Wednesday...

By Katie Todd, RNZ News reporter A wine delivery, a note penned on the back of a facemask and a 20-minute bedroom "encounter" have spelled...

By RNZ News The New Zealand government should impose a week-long home quarantine for returnees after they have left managed isolation facilities to reduce the...