Tag: Public health and safety
Yap doctors, nurses resign en masse – governor declares emergency
By Joyce McClure of Pacific Island Times
Yap State Governor Jesse Salalu has declared a state of emergency over a mass resignation of 40 doctors...
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...
NZ covid-19 update: 17 new deaths, 13,475 cases, 764 people in...
RNZ News
New Zealand's number of people in hospital with covid-19 continues to fall, but there have still been 13,475 new cases in the community...
One third of NZ covid cases in children and teens, says...
RNZ News
One third of all current cases in Aotearoa New Zealand are in children and teenagers, Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield revealed at...
Nick Rockel: Memories of the two-year covid safety struggle –...
COMMENTARY: By Nick Rockel, a reflection as Aotearoa New Zealand yesterday experienced its worst day since the covid-19 pandemic began.
It came up in...
NZ public health chief encouraged in spite of 34 covid deaths...
In spite of a record 34 covid-related deaths being reported in New Zealand today, Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay says it is...
Covid trends around the Pacific – deaths, lockdown and easing rules
RNZ Pacific
A snapshot of how the covid-19 pandemic is impacting on Pacific nations and territories today:
Second Covid-19 death in American Samoa
American Samoa has recorded...
Hundreds more may die in NZ’s first omicron wave, covid modeller...
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist
A covid-19 modeller says hundreds more people could die in Aotearoa New Zealand's first wave of the omicron...
Covid-19 modeller says NZ’s omicron death rate ‘comparable’ to other countries
RNZ News
A covid-19 modeller is hopeful omicron hospitalisations have peaked and says at this stage New Zealand's death rate is at a comparable level...
NZ’s omicron outbreak: PM Ardern heralds changes to traffic light strategy
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed cabinet's decisions about when and how covid-19 restrictions will be eased.
She said the traffic light...
Samoa extends lockdown as spread of covid-19 cases jumps to 467
RNZ Pacific
The Samoa government has extended its alert level three lockdown for another two weeks, due to the rapid spread of the covid-19 in...
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...
Omicron peak not right time to relax public health measures, says...
RNZ News
The clamour in New Zealand to ditch vaccine passes and change the traffic light setting is poorly timed, an epidemiologist says.
The number of...
Auckland hospitals put most care on hold, incentives fail to fix...
RNZ News
An Auckland nurse says a lucrative incentive payment has not fixed the city's dire hospital staffing shortage in Aotearoa New Zealand's current covid-19...
From ‘pretty communist’ to ‘Jabcinda’ – what’s behind the vitriol directed...
ANALYSIS: By Suze Wilson, Massey University
With recent polling showing National edging ahead of Labour for the first time in two years, Jacinda Ardern’s previously...
Covid-19 cases in Auckland on way down, ‘full on outbreak’ in...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says it is clear that the number of cases in Auckland is on the way...
Omicron outbreak: Pacific expert brands vaccine booster as essential
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent
The covid-19 vaccine booster needs a rebrand in New Zealand because it sounds like it is an "optional...
Parliament protest: Questions remain on funding sources and where the money...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Tim Brown, RNZ News reporter
Police will not give details about finances and their investigation into the New Zealand protest against covid-19...
Declining NZ covid-19 case counts – but record deaths and more...
RNZ News
It is too early to say New Zealand has peaked, and declining tallies are no reason to celebrate as covid-19 is still rife...
NZ’s covid-19 death toll reaches 105, but it ‘could have been...
RNZ News
The number of people with covid-19 who have died in New Zealand has now reached 105, with 14 deaths reported in the past...
‘Remain vigilant’ warning from Auckland health leaders as record 7 covid...
RNZ News
Auckland health authorities remain cautiously optimistic that the omicron outbreak may have peaked in the country's biggest city, even though 601 of the...
‘It’s still going to be messy’ warning as NZ hospital covid...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Royal NZ College of General Practitioners president Dr Samantha Murton gave a briefing today...