Tag: Public health

By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ One Pacific correspondent Frontline Pasifika healthcare teams have been given a NZ$19.5 million funding boost in New Zealand as they work...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that New Zealand's covid-19 restrictions will continue at their current level until at least 11.59pm on...

By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist More than 22,000 Pacific people have tested for covid-19 in recent weeks, as the community in New Zealand...

By RNZ News NZ Post has stood down staff who worked the day shift at an Auckland parcel processing centre after two positive tests linked...

By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby The Papua New Guinea government will not allow the use in the country of any vaccine to treat the...

By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist A call has been made to members of the Pacific community in New Zealand to check on loved...

By RNZ News New Zealand has today reported nine new cases of covid-19 in the community and two in the country's managed isolation and quarantine...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea has reported its fourth covid-19 death with infection cases now reaching 361, reports NBC News. National Coordination Centre (NCC)...

By RNZ Pacific The chair of the Pasifika GP Network is calling on the government to ensure there is a Pacific voice on the new...

By RNZ Pacific Samoa's Director-General of Health says the country remains free of the covid-19 coronavirus so the public should not believe rumours to the...

By Ben Strang, RNZ News Reporter The New Zealand government is being urged to launch an inquiry into its response to the covid-19 pandemic as...

By Jonathan Mitchell, RNZ News journalist New Zealand's Attorney-General David Parker says there has been no decision yet on a possible appeal to the High...

COMMENT: By Teuila Fuatai South Auckland and its communities, specifically Pasifika, are at the centre of New Zealand's current covid-19 cluster. As a result, media coverage,...

By Aileen Kwaragu in Port Moresby Papua New Guinean parents have been assured that everything is being done to ensure the health and safety of...

By RNZ Pacific Plans for spending NZ$5.3 on construction of the Fiji Prime Minister's new office should be diverted to people affected by the covid-19...

By RNZ News New Zealand reported 13 new confirmed cases of covid-19 in the community today and no new cases in managed isolation facilities. Director-General of...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Schools in Papua New Guinea's National Capital District resumed yesterday, with strict covid-19 protocols in place, and with several turning away...

By Jean Bell, RNZ News journalist Some South Auckland locals are hitting back at online hate directed at the area and its Pasifika community,...

By RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has moved the election date by four weeks to October 17 and says she will not...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Auckland, 4pm Saturday, August 15: 50,000 vehicles stopped, less than 700 turned back. These statistics yesterday were "frightening", says Hone Harawira of...

By RNZ News New Zealand has 12 new community cases of covid-19 - all in Auckland and all connected to existing cases, the Director-General of...

By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer The announcement that Auckland was going into lockdown for a second time was met with a deluge of conspiracy...