Tag: Public health and safety

By RNZ News Four positive cases of covid-19 outside of managed isolation or quarantine have been reported and New Zealand has activated a resurgence plan. After...

By RNZ News New Zealand has reported one new case of covid-19 in managed isolation today, the Ministry of Health has confirmed. Director-General of Health Dr...

By EMTV News Lihir is the second mine in Papua New Guinea to report a confirmed covid-19 case as the national total of infections reached...

By Patrick Makis in Buka Contact tracing has begun for the Autonomous Region of Bougainville's first covid-19 case. The 22-year-old male, who had returned from Port...

By Michael Baker, University of Otago; Amanda Kvalsvig, University of Otago, and Nick Wilson, University of Otago Tomorrow, New Zealand will mark 100 days without...

By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Port Moresby may need to expand its covid-19 isolation facilities quickly and effectively in case a big spike in...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A medical authority has warned that the spike in covid-19 cases in Papua New Guinea is to be expected and could...

By RNZ Pacific A flight attendant in French Polynesia has tested positive for covid-19 - the second Tahiti infection recorded in three days. The government said...

By Scott Waide of EMTV News Seventy-four health workers in Papua New Guinea's Morobe province have been isolated after coming in contact with a 35-year-old...

By RNZ News Four teenagers who fled from a New Zealand managed isolation facility in Hamilton last night with their mother had returned to the...

By EMTV News Papua New Guinea's Pandemic Controller David Manning has issued nine new control measures as the country's cases have increased to 31. He said...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's rapid response team of the National Capital District (NCD) is conducting thorough case investigation, contact tracing and testing...

More coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea. Video: EMTV News By EMTV News Papua New Guinea's National Command Center has announced two new covid-19 cases in...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A 48-year-old woman from Papua New Guinea's Central Province who has died after a battle with stage 4 breast cancer has...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's Controller of the National Pandemic Response and Police Commissioner, David Manning, has told the public that a rumour...

By RNZ News Health Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand's latest case of covid-19 will be charged for breaching isolation and visiting a central Auckland...

By RNZ News The opposition National Party leader says he has written to the party's board asking them to remove MP Hamish Walker from the...

COMMENT: By Nasya Bahfen in Melbourne Australia's Victorian state government told returned travellers to quarantine for two weeks. Some broke the rules. It then paid for...

By Koroi Tadulala in Suva Fiji has recorded two new border quarantine cases of covid-19 coronavirus. Both patients are Fiji citizens on a flight from India. This...

By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News The State Services Minister says the government will do everything it can to track down who is...

By RNZ Pacific Fiji's health minister is trying to allay concerns about the health of more than 160 soldiers who returned from the Middle East...

By Gordon Campbell, editor of Werewolf For most of the past week, any consumer of this country’s management of covid-19 would think New Zealand was...