Tag: Public health

RNZ News All of New Zealand will remain in lockdown until at least Friday, while Auckland will remain in level 4 until at least 31...

By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji's Ministry of Health’s clinical scoping team on the remote southern island of Kadavu has begun to put together a...

RNZ Pacific New Zealand health officials are concerned about a cluster of covid-19 cases linked to a Pacific church in Auckland's Māngere suburb. The Ministry of...

By Sarah Robson, RNZ News social issues reporter A Pacific health and social service provider in Auckland fears the city's fifth lockdown will push families...

RNZ News New Zealand has reported 21 new community cases of covid-19 today - 20 in Auckland and one in Wellington. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley...

RNZ News New Zealand has reported 21 new covid-19 community cases in the country today. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director of Public Health Dr Caroline...

FIRST PERSON: By Ben Strang, RNZ News reporter RNZ reporter Ben Strang was on the streets before the latest lockdown when he was attacked, and...

RNZ News Eleven new cases of covid-19 have been reported in the community in New Zealand today, including three in the capital Wellington, the Ministry...

RNZ News New Zealand's current cases of covid-19 -- the first community outbreak for six months -- have been linked to a traveller who arrived...

RNZ News New Zealand police are out again today enforcing the rules of the level 4 lockdown concentrating on dealing with any illegal gatherings, ensuring...

RNZ News New Zealand's streets were largely silent today as the three-day nationwide alert-level 4 lockdown kicked in with 10 cases of covid-19 reported so...

RNZ News An Auckland University of Technology (AUT) student who was at a lecture yesterday is among the 10 new cases of covid-19 reported in...

Today's New Zealand covid-19 media briefing. Video: RNZ News RNZ News The Auckland Hospital nurse who has tested positive for covid-19 worked four shifts not knowing...

Cook Islands News Cook Islands has suspended the travel bubble with New Zealand after NZ officials reported new covid-19 community cases in Auckland. Four new community...

RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced an alert-level 4 lockdown starting at 11.59pm tonight for seven days in Auckland and Coromandel,...

RNZ Pacific More than 800 cases of covid-19 have been reported in Fiji for the last 48 hours to 8am on Monday and the first...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva Two days after President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Mā’ohi Nui last month, where the French leader urged the local population...

RNZ Pacific Fifty percent of Fijians who died from covid-19 were at home at the time of their deaths. The Fiji government said it had noted...

RNZ News New Zealand has two new cases of covid-19 in managed isolation and quarantine and two historical cases today, says the Ministry of Health...

RNZ Pacific Fiji has admitted 240 covid-19 patients to hospital and almost a dozen of them are in critical condition, say health authorities. This comes amid...

By Jordan Bond , RNZ News reporter A New Zealand public health expert says the highly transmissible delta variant of covid-19 could prompt a local...

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby A female nurse in Madang is the first local Papua New Guinean to be tested positive for the highly...