Tag: Public health and safety

The World Health Organisation says the delta variant of covid-19 has been identified in 85 countries and is spreading rapidly in unvaccinated populations around...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby As the delta variant of covid-19 spreads to more than 96 countries, Papua New Guinea has put in tighter...

RNZ Pacific Health authorities in Fiji have confirmed 274 infections of covid-19 in the 24-hour period ending at 8am today as they have warned people...

ANALYSIS: By Arindam Basu, University of Canterbury New Zealand has avoided community transmission, even though an Australian visitor tested positive for the delta variant which...

RNZ Pacific Four more people have died as Fiji recorded 312 new covid-19 cases in the 24 hours ending at 8am yesterday. The Health Ministry said...

By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea and Fiji are among several countries in the region going backwards in their fight against the...

By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji has reported 241 new cases of covid-19 infections and one death in the 24-hour period ending at 8am yesterday. Health...

SPECIAL REPORT: RNZ Pacific WARNING: This article contains graphic content that some readers may find disturbing. Unexplained deaths spark sorcery claims, torture and murder, as fears...

By Talebula Kate in Suva Six teenagers were among 56 people arrested by Fiji police in the past 24 hrs for failure to comply with...

RNZ News It will take a few more days before New Zealand can be said to have dodged a bullet over the latest covid-19 scare,...

By Emmanuel Samoglou in Avarua, Cook Islands Cook Islands Te Marae Ora Ministry of Health has apologised to passengers who were offloaded in error on...

By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva Three more people with covid-19 have died in Fiji in the last 24 hours -- one of...

By Tsarina Maharani in Jakarta The initiator of the citizen-based reporting coalition Lapor Covid-19 (Report Covid-19), Ahmad Arif, says the Indonesian public is facing the...

By Felix Chaudhary in Suva The Fiji government and other health experts must give the country a covid-19 crisis timeline, says prominent lawyer Richard Naidu. He...

By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom Fiji could face around 600 covid-19 deaths within about eight weeks, and 50,000 active cases, unless decisive government-led...

By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji has reported its highest daily total of positive covid-19 infections with 279 cases reported as of 8am today as...

RNZ News The Wellington region moved to alert level 2 at 6pm today after an Australian tourist who visited the New Zealand capital on the...

By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva Fiji's covid19 case count broke records again yesterday as medical authorities recorded another two deaths at the...

By Pia Ranada in Manila What is Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's solution to vaccine hesitancy among Filipinos? Threaten them with jail time. Duterte, in a meeting...

By Koroi Tadulala, FBC News journalist Fiji recorded 126 new cases of covid-19 in the 24-hour period ending at 8am yesterday with another death as...

RNZ Pacific The New Zealand government is ramping up its support to Fiji, which is in the grips of a covid-19 pandemic crisis. Another 126 new...

By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva Fiji's covid-19 cases continue to escalate as medical authorities have recorded another record breaking 166 new people...