Tongan PM positive for COVID-19
Tongan Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni has tested positive for COVID19 and will be home isolated with members of his immediate family for the mandatory...
Cook Islands ease travel restrictions
Regulations in the Cook Islands are softening, with Prime Minister Mark Brown announcing major changes surrounding travel to the nation.
The changes are in response...
NZ sends aid to Covid-stricken Vanuatu as outbreak deepens
There's been a rush to vaccination centres in Vanuatu with the whole country now in lockdown as Covid-19 spreads from the main island.
Up until...
UN rights chief leads call for global COVID-19 vaccine equity
The global failure to deliver enough COVID-19 vaccines to developing countries “is prolonging the pandemic” and causing tens of thousands of preventable deaths every...
Niue prepared for arrival of unwanted guest – covid
For two years Niue has been in it's own bubble of the Pacific sheltered from the virus which has plagued the rest of the...
Vanuatu Quarantine breach causes community transmission: MOH
Vanuatu Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed that the current COVID-19 community transmission was the result of a quarantine breach.
Director of the Department of...
Two years on, COVID-19 pandemic ‘far from over’
Almost 500 million people have been infected with the coronavirus since March 2020 and new variants are still a threat.
This Friday marks two years...
Niue reports its first-ever case of Covid-19, a traveller from New Zealand
Niue, one of the only countries to remain Covid-free throughout the pandemic, has recorded its first case of the virus.
The person, a traveller from...
First Covid-19 case arrives in Aiutaki
The first Covid-19 case has been discovered in Aitutaki in the Cook Islands.
The case is an Aitutaki resident, and the person is isolating at...
Vanuatu curfew extended for another 48 hours
The Vanuatu Government has extended the 6pm-6am curfew for Efate and its offshore islands for another 48 hours.
The Order to extend the curfew until...
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