Tag: Pandemic
‘Stop, listen, Papatūānuku, the earth mother, is breathing’
The Visit Auckland video "Papatūānuku (our earth mother) is Breathing".
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as...
Cook Islanders stranded in NZ furious over extra isolation requirements
By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific correspondent of Television NZ
More than 300 Cook Islanders stranded and in lockdown in New Zealand are furious to receive news...
NZ lockdown – day 24: 13 new cases reported – slight...
By RNZ News
New Zealand reported 13 new cases of Covid-19 today, made up of eight confirmed, and five probable cases.
The total number of cases...
RSF condemns Indonesia over using Covid-19 to ‘silence’ state criticism
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed to learn that Indonesia’s police have been ordered to combat not only disinformation about the coronavirus...
Indonesia braces itself for social unrest amid virus economic downturn
Pacific Media Centre
The Indonesian government is bracing itself for social unrest ahead of the Ramadan fasting month amid the economic downturn caused by the...
NZ lockdown – day 23: New cases drop, but deaths rise...
By RNZ News
There have now been 11 deaths from Covid-19 in New Zealand, but the number of new cases has dropped to single figures...
Fiji imposes new lockdowns on Vanua Levu after virus cases rise...
By Wansolwara News
A 21-year-old man on Fiji's Vanua Levu island has tested positive for the Covid-19 novel coronavirus, taking the total number of cases...
IFJ criticises pay cuts for Timorese journalists in ‘frontline’ virus work
By Raimundos Oki in Dili
Journalists in Timor-Leste are facing pay cuts amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its...
Marape confirms five new cases of coronavirus – three near Papua
Pacific Media Centre
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has confirmed that there are now five new cases of coronavirus in the country, three...
How the ‘chief covidiot’ has blocked world health unity with WHO...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series.
Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling...
NZ lockdown – day 22: Lowest case increase as pandemic bites...
By RNZ News
New Zealand has had the lowest daily increase of Covid-19 coronavirus infection cases since lockdown began last month, the Prime Minister has...
Fiji fever clinics screen more than 120,000 people in Suva ‘success’
By Koroi Tadulala in Suva
Fiji's Ministry of Health mobile fever clinic teams operating in the greater Suva area have screened 121,304 Fijians so far.
The...
NZ media chiefs warn desperate times ahead faced with advertising nadir
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
The thin veneer of a seemingly robust New Zealand media was ripped off like a...
NZ lockdown – day 21: 20% pay cut for PM, ministers...
By RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, government ministers and public service chief executives will take a 20 percent pay cut for the...
Desperate times unleash digital creativity, flexibility for j-schools
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch
Desperate times call for desperate measures and so it is with journalism schools throughout the Pacific...
Term of digital distance learning begins for NZ teachers and pupils
By John Gerritsen, education correspondent of RNZ News
The second term of New Zealand's school year starts today, but nobody is going to class.
Schools are...
NZ lockdown – day 20: Four more Covid-19 deaths, 17 new...
By RNZ News
Four more people have died from Covid-19 in New Zealand in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry has confirmed.
Nine people have...
Conflict watchdog warns Jakarta is fuelling tension in Papua over virus
Pacific Media Watch
The Covid-19 coronavirus is “exacerbating tensions” in Indonesia’s West Papua region and exposing the “shortcomings” of Jakarta government policy, warns a conflict...
Ruby Princess crew put in virus danger – not protected, says...
Pacific Media Centre
Fears are mounting over the safety of 1040 crew members - many of them from the Philippines - on board the Ruby...
Why is it so hard to stop the Covid-19 misinformation social...
ANALYSIS: By Tobias R. Keller and Rosalie Gillett of the Queensland University of Technology
Even before the coronavirus arrived to turn life upside down and...
Coronavirus ‘our common enemy’ says Chinese consul – Tahiti cases hit...
Pacific Media Centre
The Chinese consul in French Polynesia, Shen Zhiliang, has described the new coronavirus causing the global Covid-19 pandemic as "our common enemy”.
He...
Fiji steps up testing in Suva lockdown area, says Health Minister
By Maggie Boyle in Suva
Fiji's Health Minister Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete says that with mobile health clinics "hitting the ground" in Suva, the aim is...