Tag: Pasifika covid cases
Entire village tested as covid reaches third Tokelauan atoll
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
The number of covid-19 community cases in Tokelau has surpassed 50 and has now cropped up on all three...
Covid-19 in Pacific: Cook Islands reports first pandemic death
RNZ Pacific
Cook Islands has reported the country's first covid-19 pandemic death.
The 63-year-old woman died on the way to hospital on the island of Aitutaki,...
Covid-19 in the Pacific – Nauru reports first two cases in...
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...
Samoa’s covid positive cases surge tops 196, report health officials
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...
Pasifika make up half of cases in NZ’s omicron variant surge...
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...
