Tag: Public health and safety

RNZ News New Zealand's Māori vaccination rate continues to tick up, with several district health boards (DHBs) now past 90 percent for first doses. But experts...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Omicron could force more changes to New Zealand's contact tracing system, with the Ministry of Health carefully monitoring...

RNZ News More moves to tighten the New Zealand's borders may be needed on top of the decision to delay the start of the self-isolation...

RNZ Pacific Fiji's Health Ministry is concerned that people are not taking the new omicron variant of the coronavirus seriously. Fiji reported two cases of the...

RNZ News New Zealand has reached a milestone of eight million vaccine doses administered. The milestone was featured in the Ministry of Health's covid-19 update today. The...

By Jake McKee, RNZ News reporter New Zealand's longest covid-19 hospitalisation in Auckland and Northland during the first three months of the current outbreak was...

RNZ News New Zealand's first case of omicron has been identified, as the country hit its 90 percent full vaccination target today, children between five...

RNZ News Aucklanders are travelling out of New Zealand's largest city today as the border around Tāmaki Makaurau opens for the first time in 120...

RNZ News A New Zealand nurse has been referred to a professional conduct committee by the Nursing Council after posting threats online against medical professionals...

By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby Not a single tear was shed as 54 unclaimed bodies and 11 body parts were laid on top of...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's pro-independence parties say the French overseas minister's visit in the next few days is unwelcome, describing it as "another provocation". Overseas Minister...

ANALYSIS: By Matthew Hobbs, University of Canterbury and Lukas Marek, University of Canterbury As New Zealand gets ready for the festive season under the new...

RNZ Pacific Health authorities in Fiji have confirmed two people who had arrived in the country from southern Africa last month have now tested positive...

RNZ News An anti-vax protest that shut down the centre of Newmarket in New Zealand's largest city Auckland today may have cost local businesses hundreds...

By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Intensive care units and hospitals are getting a boost of hundreds of millions of dollars as the country...

By John Gerritsen, RNZ News education reporter New Zealand Education Ministry figures indicate just 2.4 percent of school teachers -- about 1400 people -- have...

By Luke Nacei in Suva Opposition whip Lynda Tabuya says Fiji should have taken its cue from Australia and delayed the opening of its borders...

RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced which regions will move into red and which into orange as the new traffic light...

ANALYSIS: By Anthony Zwi, UNSW There is global concern and widespread alarm at the discovery of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.529, which the World Health Organisation (WHO)...

RNZ Pacific Ninety percent of Pacific people in Aotearoa New Zealand have had their first covid-19 vaccine, while 11 district health boards (DHBs) have reached...

RNZ Pacific New Zealand, Australia and other nations in the Pacific need to do more to combat rampant vaccine misinformation in Pacific Island countries, which...

RNZ News Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says the global handling of the covid-19 pandemic is marred with failures, gaps and delays. Clark is...