Tag: Vaccines
Travel bans aren’t the answer to stopping new covid variant omicron
ANALYSIS: By Anthony Zwi, UNSW
There is global concern and widespread alarm at the discovery of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.529, which the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
NZ must help Pacific fight vaccine misinformation, says researcher
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand, Australia and other nations in the Pacific need to do more to combat rampant vaccine misinformation in Pacific Island countries, which...
PM Jacinda Ardern moves covid media conference after conspiracy heckling
RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the New Zealand government wants to lift vaccination rates and wants to remove anything that is a barrier...
Jo Spratt: ‘Free’ covid jabs are making the mega-rich richer
COMMENTARY: By Jo Spratt
When this novel coronavirus first swept the world last year, it was quickly obvious global vaccination was the only way out.
Governments...
Vaccination clinics prioritising Māori ‘swamped by Pākehā’
LOCAL DEMOCRACY REPORTING: By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporter
The national strategy of vaccinating against covid-19 through general and mass events is not working for...
Pacific health boost aims to meet urgent and sustained demand in...
RNZ Pacific
Pacific health providers say a major New Zealand government funding boost is not just a recognition of the critical role they play in...
Arrested doctor claims Fiji police acted ‘irresponsibly’ over covid safety rules
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Arrested medical practitioner Dr Jone Hawea has claimed that Fiji police officers acted irresponsibly by not following to covid-19 safety protocols...
NZ sends 100,000 vaccine doses to Fiji as covid deaths top...
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand is sending 100,000 vaccine doses and additional financial support to Fiji for nursing staff as the country's covid-19 death toll passed...
Vaccine resistance in West Papua as covid-19 pandemic rages
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
As with much of Indonesia, the country's easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua are struggling to contain the...
NZ covid-19 mass vaccination event starts in Auckland – long delays
RNZ News
New Zealand's first mass vaccination event is getting under way in Manukau where 16,000 people are due to receive a covid-19 vaccine in...
Fiji student son tells of his pregnant nurse mum’s losing struggle...
By Josefa Babitu in Suva
The dream of putting a smile on his mother’s face on his graduation day from university has become one that...
Macron launches cyclone shelter project in French Polynesia
RNZ Pacific
France and French Polynesia have agreed to jointly spend US$60 million to build 17 cyclone shelters across the Tuamotu archipelago.
This was announced on...
Wenda appeals to NZ, West to supply covid vaccines direct to...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A pro-independence movement in West Papua has appealed to several Western countries -- including New Zealand -- to provide urgent humanitarian...
Covid-19 infections and deaths soar in Fiji – total now 80
RNZ Pacific
Fiji has recorded a daily record 1405 new cases of covid-19 in the 24 hours to 8am on Friday.
That compares to 1220 cases...
Indonesia records highest increase in covid cases – numbers likely to...
ANALYSIS: By Dicky Budiman, Griffith University
Indonesia is currently experiencing a massive spike in covid-19 infection and deaths, as experts (including myself) have unfortunately been...
Fiji’s Nakorowiri villagers turn up in numbers to be vaccinated
By Serafina Silaitoga in Labasa, Fiji
Villagers and surrounding farmers in Labasa on Fiji's Vanua Levu island turned up in big numbers for the covid-19...
Fiji government ‘useless’, warns Prasad – Ardern touts lockdown benefits
RNZ Pacific
The Fiji government's response to the covid-19 pandemic outbreak is an utter failure, but it is not too late to follow New Zealand's...
Why is Delta such a worry? It’s more infectious, probably causes...
ANALYSIS: By Michael Toole, Burnet Institute
While Australians may be focused on the havoc the Delta variant is wreaking on our shores, Delta is in...
Fiji GPs chief criticises ‘misconstrued’ video supporting conspiracy theories
By Repeka Nasiko in Lautoka
A video by a Fiji doctor on adverse side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been misconstrued to support conspiracy...
Duterte threatens to jail Filipinos who refuse getting vaccinated
By Pia Ranada in Manila
What is Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's solution to vaccine hesitancy among Filipinos? Threaten them with jail time.
Duterte, in a meeting...
Which covid vaccine is best? Here’s why that’s really hard to...
ANALYSIS: By Wen Shi Lee, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and Hyon Xhi Tan, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and...
Warnings to anti-vaxxers slowing rollout in Solomons and PNG
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
Anti-vax misinformation is throwing a spanner in the works for covid-19 vaccination programmes in Papua New Guinea and Solomon...