A New Zealand-Pacific travel bubble looks likely to happen soon, following mounting pressure from the Cook Islands.
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News$195mil allocated to help Pasifika in Aotearoa
The Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio says the $195mil allocation will help ease the effects of COVID-19 on Pasifika communities.
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Māori make mark in 2020 Pacific Music Award finalists
This year's Pacific Music Award finalists have been announced and while it's no surprise that singer Olivia Foa'i and rappers Church & AP would get multiple nominations respectively, our Māori-Pasifika artists have made their marks as well.
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Air travel a headache for many across the Pacific
It is a time of headaches and pressure for not only Air New Zealand but for everyone who is at home in isolation, as well as those who are wishing to return to their loved ones but must stay put.
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Update: Māori with COVID-19
A total of 79 people identified as being Māori have COVID-19 in New Zealand.
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Māori and Pacific Covid-19 cases announced
Today the Ministry of Health has confirmed that out of the 514 Covid-19 cases to date, approximately 4% of those cases are Māori and 2.3% are Pacific people.
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Samoa residents call for closure of entry into the country due to COVID-19
Residents in Samoa are calling for their Government to stop entry into the country after the first suspected case of the coronavirus was announced there this week, and the first case in Fiji confirmed.
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Fiji confirms first case of Coronavirus
Fiji's Health Minister Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete tweeted there is a single confirmed case of COVID19 in Lautoka that was imported from a patient who had recently travelled abroad.
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First suspected case of Coronavirus in Samoa
The Ministry of Health in Samoa says the patient resides in Auckland and flew in from New Zealand last week for a family occasion.
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Pacific Leadership Forum: Pasifika at highest risk of Coronavirus
The Pacific Leadership Forum have identified their ethnicity as the having the highest risk of contracting Coronavirus. To combat that risk, the Aotearoa based leadership group has offered their services to help the government prepare their communities for the long fight ahead. In a statement the forum wrote, “This is a great risk not only to the Pacific communities, but also to the wider New Zealand population.”
