Tag: Public health

By RNZ News New Zealand reported 13 new cases of Covid-19 today, made up of eight confirmed, and five probable cases. The total number of cases...

By RNZ News There have now been 11 deaths from Covid-19 in New Zealand, but the number of new cases has dropped to single figures...

By Wansolwara News A 21-year-old man on Fiji's Vanua Levu island has tested positive for the Covid-19 novel coronavirus, taking the total number of cases...

Pacific Media Centre Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has confirmed that there are now five new cases of coronavirus in the country, three...

By RNZ News New Zealand has had the lowest daily increase of Covid-19 coronavirus infection cases since lockdown began last month, the Prime Minister has...

By Koroi Tadulala in Suva Fiji's Ministry of Health mobile fever clinic teams operating in the greater Suva area have screened 121,304 Fijians so far. The...

By RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, government ministers and public service chief executives will take a 20 percent pay cut for the...

By RNZ News Four more people have died from Covid-19 in New Zealand in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry has confirmed. Nine people have...

By Maggie Boyle in Suva Fiji's Health Minister Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete says that with mobile health clinics "hitting the ground" in Suva, the aim is...

By RNZ News New Zealand's Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield today confirmed the Health Ministry is "actively looking" at the rules around people visiting...

By RNZ News New Zealand's number of recovered cases of Covid-19 continues to be higher than the number of new infections, the Director-General of Health...

By RNZ News New Zealand has had two further deaths because of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, doubling the death toll to four, says Director of...

By Antónia Gusmão in Dili Timor-Leste has registered its second case of Covid-19, the Integrated Crisis Management Centre (CIGC) has confirmed. The patient – a Timorese...

By RNZ News A Christchurch woman in her 90s who was living in the Rosewood rest home is New Zealand's second death from Covid-19, the...

By RNZ News New Zealand has recorded just 29 new cases of Covid-19 infection in the past 24 hours, but the prime minister says a...

COMMENTARY: By Georgie Bright, Australia associate director of Human Rights Watch Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the fragile health system in Papua New Guinea was...

By RNZ News Social media misinformation about Covid-19 is putting Pacific communities in New Zealand at particular risk, government advisers say. The government announced a $17...

By Wansolwara staff Fiji now has 15 coronavirus cases after a single new case has been confirmed by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama. The new case was one...

By Florencio Miranda Ximenes and Antónia Gusmão in Dili Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister Taur Matan Ruak has explained the decision to dismiss the vice-health minister, saying...

Pacific Media Centre Health authorities in Papua have reported a spike in the number of people under surveillance (ODP) in the southern Merauke district, with...

By RNZ News New Zealand has 54 new confirmed and probable cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number of cases to 1160, the Health Ministry...

By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern does not want New Zealand to be at level four for "a minute longer than needed", but says...