Tag: Public health

By RNZ News New Zealand has reported six new cases of covid-19 today - double the number yesterday -  and one further death in the...

By RNZ News An immigration consultant is warning an entrenched underclass of unlawful workers will emerge unless the government provides emergency benefits to unemployed immigrants. About...

By Max Towle, Worldwatch reporter of RNZ News The World Health Organisation (WHO) says New Zealand has been world-leading in its response to the covid-19...

By Chris Tyler of UCL and Peter Gluckman of Koi Tū Most people think or at least hope their government is doing a good job...

By Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta When the first covid-19 coronavirus pandemic cases were detected in Indonesia, one doctor at least knew right away that...

By Jo Moir, political reporter of RNZ News New Zealand's Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has had to walk back comments made by...

By Natasia Christy Wahyuni in Jakarta Indonesia currently has the highest covid-19 coronavirus mortality rate in Asia - between 8–9 percent - owing to its...

By RNZ News Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders are returning to work today under eased level 3 restrictions - and some are queuing in...

New Zealand has just one new confirmed case of covid-19 coronavirus, and four new probable cases, the Health Ministry has revealed. But Director-General of...

Pacific Media Centre Off-label drugs may now be used in clinical trials in the Philippines to test possible cures for the coronavirus, pandemic, the Department...

By RNZ News New Zealand has identified another nine cases of the covid-19 coronavirus, but no new deaths. The new cases include four confirmed and five...

Pacific Media Watch The Indonesian human rights advocacy group TAPOL has denounced the sentencing by the district court of Central Jakarta which found six political...

By RNZ News Five new cases of covid-19 have been reported in New Zealand in the past 24 hours, with one more death linked to...

By RNZ News Three new cases of Covid-19 have been reported in New Zealand in the past 24 hours, with the Health Ministry also confirming...

By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of the Pacific Media Watch When Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced extending the New Zealand lockdown to past ANZAC weekend,...

By Josefa Babitu in Suva As Fiji continues to battle the novel coronavirus outbreak, good news has emerged as three Fijians who contracted the virus...

Stunning drone footage taken in Auckland and Wellington during level 4 lockdown shows few vehicles and an absence of pedestrians in New Zealand's main...

ANALYSIS: By Dougal Sutherland, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Arindam Basu, University of Canterbury; Malcolm Campbell, University of Canterbury; Martin Berka,...

By RNZ News The vulnerable health of an urbanised Māori and Pasifika population was among reasons for extending the country's alert level 4 lockdown, the...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced New Zealand's level 4 lockdown will be extended five days until next Monday night. The country went...

New Ireland Governor Sir Julius Chan says the provincial government will ensure communities are protected.  Video: EM TV News By Jack Lapauve Jnr in Kavieng With...

The Visit Auckland video "Papatūānuku (our earth mother) is Breathing". PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as...