Tag: Virus
Two more covid-19 cases in Port Moresby with targeted testing
More coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea. Video: EMTV News
By EMTV News
Papua New Guinea's National Command Center has announced two new covid-19 cases in...
Police chief to Manila democracy protesters – ‘Just do it online’
By Rambo Talabong in Manila
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Archie Gamboa has called on protesters preparing for rallies on President Rodrigo Duterte’s 2020...
PNG suffers first reported covid-linked death – woman with breast cancer
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A 48-year-old woman from Papua New Guinea's Central Province who has died after a battle with stage 4 breast cancer has...
National gambles on Collins crushing Ardern’s charisma in NZ election
ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, of Massey University
The starting gates in New Zealand’s September 19 election race are finally full. Labour’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...
Has the new world order failed? UN calls for new global...
Not everyone is in the same boat! Video: Al Jazeera
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres argues that inequality starts at the top...
Bishops slam draconian security laws in Philippines, Hong Kong
By Nikko Dizon and Paterno R Esmaquel II in Manila
Filipinos and the people of Hong Kong are both in need of prayers over recently-passed...
Graham Davis: Fiji’s great ‘crash through or crash’ budget is counting...
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis in Sydney
The man with his hands on the tiller of the Fijian economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has always been a great...
PNG confirms 4 new covid cases – breach in testing lab
By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Deputy Controller of the Pandemic Act, Dr Paison Dakulala, has announced four new covid-19 cases in...
Barbara Dreaver: Cook Islands travel bubble pressure a bid to ‘strong...
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific Correspondent
The Cook Islands government's inaccurate and startling announcement yesterday about a tourism bubble opening with New Zealand as...
Mixed views still over Pacific travel ‘bubbles’ but private sector has...
By Ben Bilua in Suva
Experts have challenged the value of immediate implementation of tourism or travel "bubbles", saying that it is too early to...
‘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,...
PNG covid response controller warns public against fake news
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Papua New Guinea's Controller of the National Pandemic Response and Police Commissioner, David Manning, has told the public that a rumour...
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...
‘There needs to be consequences’, says Muller over NZ MP’s covid...
By RNZ News
The opposition National Party leader says he has written to the party's board asking them to remove MP Hamish Walker from the...
Nasya Bahfen: Some broke the rules and the covid enemy is...
COMMENT: By Nasya Bahfen in Melbourne
Australia's Victorian state government told returned travellers to quarantine for two weeks. Some broke the rules.
It then paid for...
Fiji records two new border quarantine covid cases – national total...
By Koroi Tadulala in Suva
Fiji has recorded two new border quarantine cases of covid-19 coronavirus.
Both patients are Fiji citizens on a flight from India. This...
Criminal charges possible if leak source identified in NZ covid privacy...
By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News
The State Services Minister says the government will do everything it can to track down who is...
Indonesian radio gets covid creative to communicate climate crisis
By Zahra Karim Didarali
The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has brought numerous challenges to the way journalists report and has limited the stories they’re able to...
Fiji government tries to allay covid concerns as 160 troops return
By RNZ Pacific
Fiji's health minister is trying to allay concerns about the health of more than 160 soldiers who returned from the Middle East...
Covid survey shows high anxiety and depression among Asian Kiwis
By Liu Chen, RNZ News reporter
The covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown has been tough on the mental wellbeing of Asian New Zealanders, according...
PNG claims ‘nothing sinister’, no broken protocols on Chinese flight
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Papua New Guinea government is adamant no immigration laws, airport and covid-19 protocols - including national security - were breached...
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...