Tag: Public health and safety

By RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, government ministers and public service chief executives will take a 20 percent pay cut for the...

By RNZ News Four more people have died from Covid-19 in New Zealand in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry has confirmed. Nine people have...

By Maggie Boyle in Suva Fiji's Health Minister Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete says that with mobile health clinics "hitting the ground" in Suva, the aim is...

By RNZ News New Zealand's number of recovered cases of Covid-19 continues to be higher than the number of new infections, the Director-General of Health...

By RNZ News New Zealand has had two further deaths because of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, doubling the death toll to four, says Director of...

By Antónia Gusmão in Dili Timor-Leste has registered its second case of Covid-19, the Integrated Crisis Management Centre (CIGC) has confirmed. The patient – a Timorese...

By RNZ News A Christchurch woman in her 90s who was living in the Rosewood rest home is New Zealand's second death from Covid-19, the...

By RNZ News New Zealand has recorded just 29 new cases of Covid-19 infection in the past 24 hours, but the prime minister says a...

COMMENTARY: By Georgie Bright, Australia associate director of Human Rights Watch Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the fragile health system in Papua New Guinea was...

By RNZ News Social media misinformation about Covid-19 is putting Pacific communities in New Zealand at particular risk, government advisers say. The government announced a $17...

By Wansolwara staff Fiji now has 15 coronavirus cases after a single new case has been confirmed by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama. The new case was one...

By Florencio Miranda Ximenes and Antónia Gusmão in Dili Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak has explained the decision to dismiss the vice-health minister, saying...

Pacific Media Centre Health authorities in Papua have reported a spike in the number of people under surveillance (ODP) in the southern Merauke district, with...

By RNZ News New Zealand has 54 new confirmed and probable cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number of cases to 1160, the Health Ministry...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern does not want New Zealand to be at level four for "a minute longer than needed", but says...

By Sausan Atika in Jakarta The sluggish delivery of crucial social assistance funds by Indonesia's capital Jakarta administration in response to the Covid-19 outbreak is...

By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it's too early to claim success against the spread of Covid-19 but...

By RNZ Pacific The number of people with Covid-19 in the Pacific continues to climb with French Polynesia hitting 40 cases, Guam now over 90...

ANALYSIS: By Haiqing Yu of RMIT University and Michael Keane of Curtin University China has gradually emerged out of its shadow of despair as the...

ANALYSIS: By Peter Wilson Every day at 1pm New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield announces precise figures on the number of confirmed and...

Pacific Media Watch The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) has strongly condemned the shoot-to-kill order by President Rodrigo Duterte this week...

By Indra Singh in Suva Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says that if Fijians continue to disregard the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic directives from authorities, a nationwide...