Tag: Public health and safety

RNZ Pacific Fiji has reported its first death of a person living with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and diagnosed with covid-19. But the Health Ministry said...

By Rita Peki in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea Two deaths with two patients in critical condition is the status at one of Papua New...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk A new poll shows nearly two out of three New Zealanders want the border to remain closed until at least 90...

RNZ Pacific A group of doctors have hit the phones to support Pasifika families who have tested positive for covid-19 and been transferred into managed...

RNZ News New Zealand has 16 community cases of covid-19 today, according to the Ministry of Health. In a statement, the ministry said 13 of today's...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea's acting Prime Minister Soroi Eoe says the specific lockdown measures planned for the covid-19 spike in...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia recorded 16 covid-19 deaths yesterday -- the highest single day total since the delta strain of the virus arrived in the...

RNZ News Papua New Guinea authorities are preparing for a four-week lockdown in at least three provinces at the end of the month. The move has...

COMMENTARY: By Glen Johnson On August 17, a 58-year-old man from Auckland became symptomatic and tested positive for covid-19. It was New Zealand’s first community...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Papua New Guinean doctor evacuated from Daru in Western Province to Port Moresby last Tuesday has died – the latest...

ANALYSIS: By Collin Tukuitonga, University of Auckland Auckland’s move to alert level 3 has also triggered speculation about whether the national covid-19 elimination strategy has...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Alert level 3 is being called a roll of the dice that could either eliminate delta or send...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Papua New Guinea's Department of Labour has broken its silence over the government’s stance on covid-19 testing requirements in the "no...

RNZ News Auckland will move to alert level 3 from 11.59pm on Tuesday night, and stay in level 3 for at least two weeks, Prime...

RNZ News A testing centre is being set up at a marae in New Zealand's Waikato settlement of Kaiaua today after three community cases of...

RNZ News As Auckland waits to hear if it will move down an alert level this week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has assured New Zealand...

RNZ Pacific The New Caledonian government has extended the current lockdown as well as the curfew, until October as the covid-19 pandemic worsens. On Thursday, seven...

By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Ten people have died from Papua New Guinea's covid-19 pandemic and 203 new cases were reported in five days...

By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji will lift the covid-19 pandemic containment borders everywhere on the main island of Viti Levu from 4am tomorrow, Friday,...

By Grace Auka Salmang in Port Moresby Police Commissioner and Controller of the PNG National Pandemic Response David Manning has authorised the release of new...

RNZ News Three more covid-19 deaths have been recorded in New Caledonia eight days after it was plunged sharply into the pandemic. Official government figures as...

By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist Fiji's opposition Social Democratic Liberal Party is calling on the government to boost its covid-19 vaccination programmes in the...