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Pacific Security College - 5 Jul 2022
COVID-19 – the Pacific response: July 2022
The Health Authority of Papua New Guinea’s most populous province has had to shutter its doors, whilst nearly one-third of Nauru’s population has been detected with COVID-19.
COVID-19 – the Pacific response: June 2022
More than two years into the pandemic, COVID-19 has now been officially recorded in every Pacific Island country, and more countries are looking to re-open their international borders as vaccination rates edge higher.
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Pacific Security College - 5 May 2022
COVID-19 – the Pacific response: May 2022
Many Pacific countries are beginning to open their international borders, but the persistent presence of COVID-19 is complicating plans.
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Pacific Security College - 5 Apr 2022
COVID-19 – the Pacific response: April 2022
As the Pacific passes the two-year anniversary of COVID-19 in the region, the virus is continuing to have severe impacts on island nations.It has been 24 months since the pandemic began in the Pacific.
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Maxim Wiggins - 18 Mar 2022
Two years of COVID-19 in the Pacific: What’s happened, and what comes next?
Two years on from the first COVID-19 case in the Pacific, the pandemic’s impact on the social, political and economic fabric of the region continues to resonate, Maxim Wiggins writes. On 11 March 2020, after a visit to Paris, Member for French Polynesia in the French National Assembly Maina Sage became the first known positive…
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Pacific Security College - 2 Mar 2022
COVID-19 – the Pacific response: March 2022
COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the Pacific, with many island nations experiencing their first outbreaks of the pandemic.
