Tag: WHO Pacific
‘Our resources on the ground aren’t enough’, says UN Tonga official
UN News
As news coverage of the Hunga volcano eruption and tsunami that hit Tonga starts to fade, the United Nations Coordination Specialist in the...
Fiji covid-19 patient being flown to NZ for treatment in about-turn
RNZ Pacific
A covid-19 positive patient is being flown to New Zealand from Fiji today despite an earlier decision by the Ministry of Health to...
Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation
Facebook News
Facebook has today launched a public education campaign to help people in five Pacific Island countries and territories learn how to identify and...
NZ’s coronavirus response ‘one of the strongest’, says WHO
By Max Towle, Worldwatch reporter of RNZ News
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says New Zealand has been world-leading in its response to the covid-19...
When Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the novel coronavirus
DISPATCH FROM THE PACIFIC: By Professor Elisabeth Holland. She writes from a remote island in Fiji’s Koro Sea where she went to stay out...
How the ‘chief covidiot’ has blocked world health unity with WHO...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series.
Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling...
NZ pledges $1m for WHO in coronavirus support to Pacific
Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand is providing NZ$1 million to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Suva, Fiji, to support its Pacific Action Plan for...
