Tag: Public health and safety

By Finau Fonua and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists Three new covid-19 cases have been confirmed in the kingdom of Tonga bringing the total number...

RNZ News New Zealand is shortening the gap between second and third doses of the covid-19 vaccine from four months to three, the government has...

ANALYSIS: By Matthew Hobbs, University of Canterbury; Anna Howe, University of Auckland, and Lukas Marek, University of Canterbury Within a month of the first community...

RNZ Pacific The kingdom of Tonga will go into nationwide lockdown from 6pm tonight. Speaking via Tongan radio, Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni and Minister of Health...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, RNZ Pacific digital journalist South Seas Healthcare Trust chief executive Lemalu Silao Vaisola says people are tired of covid-19 rather than complacent...

RNZ News A leading epidemiologist says New Zealand's managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) is serving its purpose. The system has come under increasing criticism recently as...

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist Concern is growing around low covid-19 vaccine rates in the Pacific. People in developing nations are generally missing out due...

RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is self-isolating after being deemed a close contact of a positive covid case. She was on the same...

RNZ News Omicron has ripped through the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria, exposing testing regimes, decimating supply chains and causing the country's...

RNZ Pacific Three more children have died from covid-19 in Fiji, taking the death toll since the pandemic hit the country in 2020 to 791. The...

RNZ Pacific Three more people have died of covid-19 in Solomon Islands raising the national tally to five. Health authorities confirmed the country's first two deaths...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific regional correspondent The Kiribati Health Ministry has confirmed that the atoll island nation has surpassed 100 covid-19 cases after it...

By Jane Patterson, RNZ News political editor New Zealand could be facing 50,000 daily omicron infections by Waitangi weekend, according to modelling by US-based health...

By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporter A covid-19 Māori health analyst says more than 106,000 vaccinated Māori are not eligible for a booster shot until...

By Luke Rawalai in Suva Fiji has recorded 987 covid-19 cases, says Ministry of Health permanent secretary Dr James Fong who says the latest deaths...

RNZ News Twenty five new cases of covid-19 have been reported in the New Zealand community today, including 10 confirmed omicron cases. In a statement, the...

RNZ News New Zealand does not have enough nurses or ICU beds, warn healthcare figures as their workforce braces for omicron. The College of Critical Care...

By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby A Papua New Guinean doctor, who is alleged to be covid-19 positive, has been arrested and charged in Solomon...

RNZ News People should do everything they can against omicron, but it is likely large numbers will be infected, New Zealand's Covid-19 Response Minister says. Speaking...

By Dio Suhenda in Jakarta More than a month after the omicron variant was first discovered in Indonesia, the highly transmissible but less fatal variant...

By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporting journalist A New Zealand iwi development and social services leader in Taihape is urging rural people to prepare urgently...

By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is warning New Zealand's covid-19 case numbers in 2022 will be unlike anything seen...