Tag: Quarantine
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...
President Lú-Olo declares Timor-Leste state of emergency over coronavirus
Pacific Media Watch
The President of Timor-Leste, Francisco Guterres Lú-Olo, has declared a state of emergency to enable the government to address the global Covid-19...
State must fund urgent Filipino health, social needs now, say economists
Week one of the wide-ranging quarantine measures in the Philippines has already rattled medical frontliners, law enforcers, national and local government authorities and economic...
NZ to shut out foreign travellers from China – first death...
By RNZ News
A man has died of the Wuhan coronavirus outside China, and any foreign travellers who leave from or transit through China will...
Why we may have lost battle against China’s coronavirus
By Andrio Adiwibowo in Jakarta
After beating the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemics in the past, we may...
First Australian coronavirus case confirmed – 41 now dead in China
By RNZ News
The first Australian case of Wuhan coronavirus has been confirmed, with a man being held under isolation in a Melbourne hospital.
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