Tag: Quarantine
NZ’s first cruise ship since beginning of pandemic arrives – next...
RNZ News
The P&O Pacific Explorer has docked in at Queens Wharf in Auckland from Sydney, the first cruise ship to arrive in Aotearoa New...
Marshall Islands gets largest number of covid border cases in Kwajalein
By Giff Johnson, RNZ Pacific correspondent
Covid-19 testing of Marshall Islanders in managed quarantine has seen the largest number test positive for covid-19 since managed...
More omicron in Auckland possible after MIQ worker’s contact tests positive
By Katie Todd, RNZ News reporter
A microbiologist has warned more contacts of the omicron-infected MIQ worker in Auckland may test positive, after a household...
Three US Army personnel test positive for covid at Marshall Islands...
By Giff Johnson, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro
The US Army ignored agreed-to covid prevention rules for entry into the Marshall Islands this week and...
Second person isolating at home in NZ dies – 163 new...
RNZ News
A second person with covid-19 who was isolating at home has died in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health has confirmed.
In this afternoon's...
Stays in MIQ to be halved under NZ’s new system –...
RNZ News
The New Zealand government revealed changes to MIQ (managed isolation and quarantine) today, with stays halving from 14 to seven days, followed by...
Health officials detect 83 covid-19 cases at controversial Papuan Games
By Desi Purnamawati and Uyu Liman in Jakarta
Eighty-three covid-19 cases have been reported during the Indonesian National Games (PON-XX) being held in Papua as...
Northland added to NZ’s alert level 3 tonight over ‘uncooperative’ case
RNZ News
Northland will move to alert level 3 restrictions from 11:59pm tonight, New Zealand's Covid-19 Response Minister has confirmed.
Minister Chris Hipkins held a briefing...
‘I wouldn’t wish this on anyone’: Life inside Jet Park with...
LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTING: By Justin Latif, Local Democracy Reporter
One of the positive cases from New Zealand's Assemblies of God Church of Samoa cluster has...
13 more covid positive cases on NZ quarantined fishing vessel Viking...
RNZ News
Another 13 crew from the quarantined fishing vessel Viking Bay have tested positive to covid-19, New Zealand's Ministry of Health says.
Two crew had...
Fiji breach at quarantine ‘an incident waiting to happen’ as new...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Fiji Health Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Dr James Fong says the breach at the quarantine facility in Nadi was an incident waiting...
Covid outbreak forces New Caledonia into snap two-week lockdown
Asia Pacific Report
New Caledonia, one of the Pacific territories to have avoided the covid-19 pandemic so far, is to go into strict two-week lockdown...
WorkSafe takes action against four NZ covid managed isolation hotels
By RNZ News
WorkSafe took enforcement action against four New Zealand managed isolation facilities last year after reviewing their health and safety measures, it has...
One new community covid case in NZ, one imported case
By RNZ News
New Zealand today reported one new community case of covid-19 - the first in five days.
There was no media conference today. In...
Port Moresby may need to expand covid isolation facilities, warns doctor
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby
Port Moresby may need to expand its covid-19 isolation facilities quickly and effectively in case a big spike in...
‘Lock them up’, says furious Grey Power over covid isolation escapees
By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News
Grey Power is enraged by what it says is the "stupid and dangerous" behaviour of people fleeing managed isolation facilities,...
New NZ case of ‘isolated’ covid patient visiting supermarket to be...
By RNZ News
Health Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand's latest case of covid-19 will be charged for breaching isolation and visiting a central Auckland...
Chinese businessmen ‘complied with quarantine measures’ – 10 PNG cases
By Adelaide Sirox Kari in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape says an aircraft with four Chinese businessmen on board had complied...
Airport security force Vanuatu journo to delete repatriation photos
Pacific Media Watch
A Vanuatu Daily Post journalist was forced to delete all photos of a repatriation aircraft’s arrival in Port Vila from New Zealand,...
O’Neill arrest featured on PMC’s Southern Cross radio
Pacific Media Watch
The arrest of former Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill on his arrival home in Port Moresby was featured today on...
Cook Islanders stranded in NZ furious over extra isolation requirements
By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific correspondent of Television NZ
More than 300 Cook Islanders stranded and in lockdown in New Zealand are furious to receive news...
PNG arrests 9 border crossers while governor calls for ‘shoot to...
Pacific Media Watch
Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested nine alleged illegal border crossers and quarantined them in Vanimo, reports RNZ Pacific.
The arrests came...