Tag: Virus

BACKGROUNDER: By Oiwan Lam Former human rights lawyer and famous citizen journalist Chen Qiushi arrived in Wuhan city, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, on...

By RNZ Pacific Thirty Pacific islanders are being quarantined at a New Zealand military base, following their evacuation from China. They are among 193 evacuees who...

By RNZ News About 60 people failed to board a New Zealand-led evacuation from China yesterday. Nearly 200 people, mostly New Zealanders, were flown to Auckland...

Al Jazeera's Inside Story features the global coronavirus health emergency. BACKGROUNDER: By Global Voices What started at a seafood market as a local health issue...

By Harry Lock of RNZ News New Zealand universities fear the temporary travel ban on foreigners from China due to the novel coronavirus outbreak is...

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...

By RNZ News A New Zealand district councillor says he has been bombarded with racist messages since he spoke out about racism towards Asian people...

By RNZ News Some Chinese students are being rejected by their homestays in New Zealand over fears about the deadly coronavirus. Infections from the novel coronavirus...

Video report by RNZ Pacific. RNZ Pacific's Jamie Tahana reports In the Pacific, where several countries are already dealing with epidemics, some countries have taken extreme...

By RNZ News New Zealanders evacuated from Wuhan amid the coronavirus outbreak will be quarantined in Aotearoa - not on Christmas Island like the Australians. As...

Rappler editorial It’s not the virus. It’s not the Chinese flying into the Philippines. Our biggest enemy amid the Wuhan crisis is panic. Here's the situation:...

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...

By RNZ News The unexpected death of a person in New Zealand who recently travelled to China is being investigated for coronavirus, but a local...

By RNZ News New Zealand health authorities are following up reports of a person with coronavirus in the southern New Zealand tourism city of Queenstown. RNZ...