Tag: Public health and safety
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...
One new community covid case in NZ, one imported case
By RNZ News
New Zealand today reported one new community case of covid-19 - the first in five days.
There was no media conference today. In...
Four Chinese citizen journalists still missing after investigating covid-19
France 24 Focus report on the Chinese citizen journalists still missing after investigating Covid-19 in Wuhan.
By France 24
Since coming to power in 2012, Chinese...
Back to zero for NZ: No new cases of covid-19 reported...
By RNZ News
New Zealand reported no new cases of covid-19 today - for the first time since early August.
There was no media conference today....
‘Be vigilant’ pleads PNG police chief as woman dies from covid...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A woman has died of the covid-19 coronavirus in Papua New Guinea, becoming the sixth fatality from the deadly virus in...
Auckland mayor Phil Goff slams rash of ‘obnoxious lies’ over covid
By RNZ News
Auckland Mayor Phil Goff says people in the city are, by and large, following the rules and prosecution shouldn't be ruled out...
Audit report slams ‘flawed’ PNG health management, ‘extravagant lifestyles’
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby
Flaws in Papua New Guinea's public health system and the medicine supply chain are because of poor management in...
New covid-19 cases in Tahiti raises tally to 820 – 6...
By RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia has recorded another 47 covid-19 cases, raising the tally to 820.
Health officials report that 758 of them were recorded since...
NZ reports surge in positive covid-19 cases returning from India
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News journalist
New Zealand health authorities have reported a surge in the number of people returning to the country from India...
Farewell, Papa Joe – a Pacific beacon of calm and wise...
TRIBUTE: Dr Collin Tukuitonga farewells his mentor, Dr Joe Williams, who died on Friday night after a battle with covid-19.
I have a lot for...
Former Cook Islands PM dies in Auckland from coronavirus
By Rashneel Kumar in Avarua
Former Cook Islands Prime Minister Dr Joe Williams died last night after a battle with coronavirus.
He was 82.
Dr Williams,...
Man in 50s dies from covid-19 in NZ’s Middlemore Hospital
By RNZ News
A man in his 50s linked to the Auckland cluster of covid-19 coronavirus infections has died at Middlemore Hospital today - New...
Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre
Six years on from being appointed head of the Pacific Community, Director-General Collin Tukuitonga, a boy...
Catholic group calls on Marape to repeal ‘martial law’ Pandemic Act
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Catholic professionals group has filed an application in Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court to intervene in last month's challenge on...