Tag: Public health

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Papua New Guinea's Department of Labour has broken its silence over the government’s stance on covid-19 testing requirements in the "no...

RNZ News Auckland will move to alert level 3 from 11.59pm on Tuesday night, and stay in level 3 for at least two weeks, Prime...

RNZ News A testing centre is being set up at a marae in New Zealand's Waikato settlement of Kaiaua today after three community cases of...

RNZ News As Auckland waits to hear if it will move down an alert level this week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has assured New Zealand...

RNZ Pacific The New Caledonian government has extended the current lockdown as well as the curfew, until October as the covid-19 pandemic worsens. On Thursday, seven...

By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Ten people have died from Papua New Guinea's covid-19 pandemic and 203 new cases were reported in five days...

By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji will lift the covid-19 pandemic containment borders everywhere on the main island of Viti Levu from 4am tomorrow, Friday,...

By Grace Auka Salmang in Port Moresby Police Commissioner and Controller of the PNG National Pandemic Response David Manning has authorised the release of new...

RNZ News Three more covid-19 deaths have been recorded in New Caledonia eight days after it was plunged sharply into the pandemic. Official government figures as...

By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist Fiji's opposition Social Democratic Liberal Party is calling on the government to boost its covid-19 vaccination programmes in the...

RNZ News New Zealand has reported 15 new cases of covid-19 in the community, the Ministry of Health has announced. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk French High Commissioner Patrice Faure in New Caledonia has declared an eight hour curfew for 15 days from tonight as health...

By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea has dispatched a team of government officials to investigate a covid-19 delta variant threat in its...

RNZ News Auckland will stay in covid-19 alert level 4 for another week until 11.59pm next Tuesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. Cabinet has made an...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Pasifika local government politician in New Zealand, the first from Kiribati to be elected to political office, has appealed to...

RNZ News Covid-19 numbers dropped slightly today to 20 new community cases, while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a deal with Denmark to bring 500,000...

RNZ News New Zealand has reported 23 new cases of covid-19 in the community today, more than double the amount reported yesterday. There was no media...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has recorded its first death of the Covid-19 pandemic. The fatality was announced by territorial President Louis Mapou today in a televised...

RNZ News New Zealand health officials are investigating a mystery case of covid-19 who spent time in hospital and interacted with seven police officers before...

RNZ Pacific The New Caledonian government has appealed to all medical and paramedical staff, including veterinarians, to help in the fight against covid-19. Sixty-six cases have...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A person tested positive for covid-19 today at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital emergency department after turning up for an unrelated issue, the...

By Edwin Nand in Suva A four-month-old baby boy has died from covid-19 in Fiji. Health Secretary Dr James Fong has confirmed the child was admitted...