Tag: Pandemic

RNZ News Police have pulled back on their plans to begin towing vehicles illegally parked around the anti-vaccine, anti-mandate protest on Aotearoa New Zealand's Parliament...

RNZ News Wellington iwi leaders have called for an end to Aotearoa New Zealand's 10-day-old anti-covid mandates protest in Parliament grounds and condemned comparisons made...

RNZ Pacific A group of church ministers in Fiji have resigned because they do not want to be vaccinated against covid-19. There has been growing pressure...

By Susan Botting, Local Democracy Reporting journalist A Kaipara district councillor's almost week-long participation in New Zealand's anti-covid-19 mandate protest at Parliament is jeopardising the...

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist Pasifika people are making up about half of the cases in the current outbreak of the omicron variant in...

ANALYSIS: By Ross Hendy, Monash University The continued occupation of the Aotearoa New Zealand Parliament’s grounds by anti-vaccine mandate protesters (and others) provides a unique...

RNZ News The one million New Zealanders who are so far delaying getting their booster shots are the biggest concern of top covid-19 adviser Sir...

RNZ News "Go home and take your children" -- that was New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's plea to protesters remaining at Parliament today. Despite being...

RNZ News Hundreds of anti-mandate protesters remained on the New Zealand Parliament lawn today as health officials reported a big increase in covid-19 cases nationally. But...

RNZ News Police say a protester who needed medical attention within New Zealand's Parliament grounds last night had to wait for ambulance staff to get...

RNZ News New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson has warned that although people have a right to protest when "they threaten, harass and disrupt...

RNZ News Police say misinformation and a "range of different causes and motivations" are making it difficult to resolve the situation with protesters at New...

RNZ News New Zealand police are braced as more protesters began arriving as the demonstration at Parliament in the capital Wellington entered the fourth day. Tensions...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk New Zealand's leading daily newspaper today published an editorial exposing the "unfairness" of global media criticism of Australasian responses to covid-19,...

RNZ News One hundred and twenty protesters have been arrested for refusing to leave the grounds of New Zealand's Parliament after being trespassed today Police say...

COMMENTARY: By Dr Mark Craig in defence of New Zealand's dedicated managed isolation and quarantine team and facilities as the country braces for omicron. As...

RNZ News Police handcuffed three people after protesters today tried to push through a barrier on the grounds of New Zealand's Parliament -- known as...

RNZ News More than 50 police have formed a ring around the front of New Zealand's Parliament today edging up to a line of protesters...

RNZ Pacific Several hundred more cases of covid in Solomon Islands ... Kiribati records first covid death ...nearly 12,000 in isolation in New Caledonia ......

RNZ News After a record number of covid-19 cases were reported on Saturday, New Zealand's prime minister believes the country's omicron peak may be in...

By Kim Moodie, RNZ News reporter A public health expert is urging New Zealanders to keep up the testing momentum, as testing rates take a...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's covid-19 outbreak continues to spread with almost 10,000 active cases. This includes 1289 new infections detected over the preceding 24 hours. Twenty five...