Tag: Public health and safety
Family charged over covid-19 isolation facility escape to attend NZ funeral
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...
PNG imposes nine new covid control measures as cases climb to...
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...
PNG rapid response team steps up Port Moresby tracing after covid...
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...
Two more covid-19 cases in Port Moresby with targeted 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...
PNG suffers first reported covid-linked death – woman with breast cancer
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...
PNG covid response controller warns public against fake news
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...
New NZ case of ‘isolated’ covid patient visiting supermarket to be...
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...
‘There needs to be consequences’, says Muller over NZ MP’s covid...
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...
Nasya Bahfen: Some broke the rules and the covid enemy is...
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...
Fiji records two new border quarantine covid cases – national total...
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...
Criminal charges possible if leak source identified in NZ covid privacy...
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...
Fiji government tries to allay covid concerns as 160 troops return
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...
Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace
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...
NZ’s coronavirus reality check a ‘timely wake-up call’, says Herald
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
New Zealand's coronavirus reality check last week is a "timely wake-up call" crucial to moving towards a transtasman travel bubble, says...
Fiji works on its own ‘Bula Bubble’ in spite of Australian,...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says while Australia and New Zealand work out their Trans-Tasman bubble, Fiji’s equal greater success against the...
Selwyn Manning: National ‘sat on’ vital covid-19 infection information before dropping...
ANALYSIS: By Selwyn Manning, editor of EveningReport.nz
It all boils down to this: The timeline of latest revelations suggests National Party MPs placed their "want...
NZ’s covid-19 border botch-up: ‘Next few days will be crucial’
COMMENT: By Jane Patterson, RNZ News political editor
Public confidence in New Zealand's border controls has been shattered.
The obvious anger of the prime minister when...
‘Raise our game’ on NZ border safety says expert after covid...
Professor Sir David Skegg says New Zealand is endangering all the covid-19 gains made if new cases are allowed in at the borders such...
2 new covid-19 cases in NZ, but elimination target still stands
By Shaun Hendy; Alex James of University of Canterbury; Audrey Lustig of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Michael Plank of University of Canterbury; Nicholas...
Two new covid-19 cases in NZ visited dying parent, says Bloomfield
By RNZ News
Two new cases of covid-19 in New Zealand were women aged in their 30s and 40s who visited a dying parent in...
New Zealand relaxes covid restrictions after ‘remarkable’ virus fight
By RNZ News
"Covid-free" New Zealand has moved early today to its lowest restrictions - alert level 1.
The change happened at midnight after New Zealanders...
NZ hits 95% chance of eliminating covid – but new cases...
By Michael Plank of the University of Canterbury; Alex James of the University of Canterbury; Audrey Lustig of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Nicholas...