Tag: Public health and safety

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...