Tag: Pandemic

RNZ Pacific The first female premier of a Solomon Islands province is appealing to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to help her country manage...

By Joyce McClure of Pacific Island Times Yap State Governor Jesse Salalu has declared a state of emergency over a mass resignation of 40 doctors...

RNZ Pacific A roundup today of the covid-19 pandemic status around the Pacific. Nauru President Lionel Aingimea has announced that Nauru has recorded its first two covid-19...

By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist A Māori health leader says a new international misinformation study confirms the alarm many were desperately trying to...

RNZ News Auckland University of Technology's new vice-chancellor -- the country's first Pasifika educator in the top role at a university -- is determined to...

RNZ News New Zealand's number of people in hospital with covid-19 continues to fall, but there have still been 13,475 new cases in the community...

RNZ News One third of all current cases in Aotearoa New Zealand are in children and teenagers, Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield revealed at...

COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel, a reflection as Aotearoa New Zealand yesterday experienced its worst day since the covid-19 pandemic began. It came up in...

In spite of a record 34 covid-related deaths being reported in New Zealand today, Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay says it is...

RNZ Pacific A snapshot of how the covid-19 pandemic is impacting on Pacific nations and territories today: Second Covid-19 death in American Samoa American Samoa has recorded...

By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist A covid-19 modeller says hundreds more people could die in Aotearoa New Zealand's first wave of the omicron...

RNZ News A covid-19 modeller is hopeful omicron hospitalisations have peaked and says at this stage New Zealand's death rate is at a comparable level...

By Moana Ellis of Local Democracy Reporting A Whanganui iwi leader says the Aotearoa New Zealand government's decision to ease covid-19 measures at this time is...

RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed cabinet's decisions about when and how covid-19 restrictions will be eased. She said the traffic light...

RNZ Pacific The Samoa government has extended its alert level three lockdown for another two weeks, due to the rapid spread of the covid-19 in...

RNZ News New Zealand's Director-General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, says covid-19 case numbers have passed their peak in Auckland, the country's largest city, but...

By Alexander Rheeney in Apia Samoa’s total number of active covid-19 cases has increased to 196 with the government confirming 192 cases in Upolu and...

RNZ News The clamour in New Zealand to ditch vaccine passes and change the traffic light setting is poorly timed, an epidemiologist says. The number of...

ANALYSIS: By Ashwin Swaminathan, Australian National University It seems not a day goes by without learning someone in our inner circle of family, friends and...

By Tess Brunton, RNZ News tourism reporter Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has gone on a marketing blitz to reel Australians to Aotearoa New Zealand's shores. It...

RNZ News An Auckland nurse says a lucrative incentive payment has not fixed the city's dire hospital staffing shortage in Aotearoa New Zealand's current covid-19...

RNZ News New Zealand's Ministry of Health has reported 19,542 new cases of covid-19 in the community and 24 more deaths today. The ministry said eight...