Tag: Public health and safety
NZ covid minister Hipkins announces no lockdown over community case
By RNZ News
Minister of Covid-19 Response Chris Hipkins says he is hopeful a lockdown can be avoided in New Zealand's largest city after a...
Covid-19: NZ tells Auckland workers in downtown to work from home
By RNZ News
A New Zealand covid-19 community case identified in Auckland today had called in sick to work after being tested but went to...
Vanuatu doubles quarantine period, halts domestic travel to Efate
By RNZ Pacific
The capital island of Vanuatu - Efate - is closed off today after the country's first case of covid-19 was announced yesterday.
Stricter...
Another Pacific death as covid cases in Guam and CNMI keep...
By RNZ Pacific
Guam has suffered its 90th covid-related death with the US Pacific territory now recording 5233 cases.
The Pacific Daily News today reported 249...
Covid at Kwajalein Army base sparks Majuro worry, protocol changes
By Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent
Despite increasing calls this week from community and political leaders to keep the Marshall...
Bryan Bruce: Remember, we can’t have any lifestyle – if we...
COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce
The covid 19 coronavirus is so small it is estimated around 500 million of them could fit onto a pin head....
Skegg warns against ‘complacency, slackness’ over Auckland covid fears
By RNZ News
Epidemiologist Sir David Skegg is concerned at the level of complacency the public and government is showing towards covid-19 since the country...
Russian fishing crew not feeling too unwell, says Sealord boss
By RNZ News
Hundreds of Russian fishing crew at a New Zealand covid isolation hotel in Christchurch are said to be in good spirits and...
Covid-19 outbreak among Russian fishers at NZ isolation facility
Sealord responds to international fishers covid-19 outbreak at Christchurch MIQ. Video: RNZ
By RNZ News
Some 11 cases of covid-19 have been confirmed at a New...
Ship bound for Brisbane ‘most likely source’ of new NZ covid...
By RNZ News
The Director-General of Health says a ship now bound for Brisbane is believed to be the most likely source of transmission in...
French Polynesia’s ex-president Flosse tests positive for covid-19
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's former president Gaston Flosse has tested positive for covid-19, prompting a deferral of today's appeal court hearing.
Flosse and the current...
French Polynesian president tests covid-19 positive after Paris visit
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's President Edouard Fritch says he has tested positive for covid-19 on his return from France.
A government statement said that despite...
Bryan Bruce: On trolls, haters, conspiracy theorists and health stupidity
COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce
The other day I wrote a post on my blog which invited people to: "Take care of others by taking care...
Aucklanders warned not to fall into a ‘slumber’ again over covid
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent
Aucklanders are being warned not to be caught napping again when it comes to the covid-19 pandemic.
New Zealand's...
PNG opposition’s Namah calls for end to ‘martial law-like’ restrictions
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's opposition has called on the government to explain the paralysing martial law type restrictions that has crippled the...
Tahiti’s Nuutania prison detects covid-19 outbreak with 20 cases
By RNZ Pacific
The covid-19 outbreak in French Polynesia has reached Tahiti's prison and infected 20 people.
The French High Commission said that after two cases...
Survey shows many Indonesians think ‘covid doesn’t exist’ amid new spike
By Ivany Atina Arbi in Jakarta
Indonesia saw a one-day record of 4465 new covid-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases...
100,000 Polynesians with covid by year’s end, warn Tahiti officials
By Michael Field
French Polynesian authorities are conceding the Pacific territory of 280,000 people will probably have 100,000 cases of covid-19 by the end of...
Labour and National leaders contest debate ‘draw’ but sharply different
ANALYSIS: By The Conversation
Prime Minister and Labour leader Jacinda Ardern and National Party leader Judith Collins met tonight for the first televised debate of...
No new cases of covid-19 as NZ eases restrictions in Auckland,...
By RNZ News
New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield announced no new cases of covid-19 yesterday.
It was also revealed that Auckland is set...
How covid priorities have ‘shelved’ PNG climate change action
The project video - read the linked story.
By Sri Krishnamurthi of the Pacific Media Centre
Climate change action has been "shelved" for the moment in...
Four new covid cases in NZ – two community and two...
By RNZ News
Two new community cases revealed today in New Zealand are connected to a returnee who tested positive for covid-19 after completing the...