Category: Healthcare

Health insurance: second demonstration in Noumea a...

Posted by Ted Wood | Mar 8, 2023 | Area, Healthcare, New Caledonia, Politics

Covid returns to Tahiti

by Ted Wood | Apr 3, 2023 | Area, Breaking News, French Polynesia, Healthcare, In Short, Theme

The Covid-19 epidemic is back on the rise in French Polynesia. Sixty-six new cases were confirmed last week, according to Tahiti Infos. According to the health watch bulletin, the cases are mainly concentrated in Tahiti (46),...

Omicron variant arrives in New Caledonia

by Ted Wood | Jan 7, 2022 | Area, Breaking News, Healthcare, New Caledonia

Suspected cases had been detected in recent weeks. The government confirmed on Thursday that it...

The virus is killing far fewer people

by Ted Wood | Dec 9, 2021 | Healthcare, New Caledonia

Deaths from covid are becoming increasingly rare. The total number of deaths since 9 September is 280. 22 new positive cases have been confirmed. These new cases bring the total number of confirmed positive cases to 12,343 since...

Mandatory health pass in Polynesia

by Ted Wood | Nov 21, 2021 | Area, Breaking News, Business, Economy, Healthcare, Pacific, Politics

The Polynesian “health pass” is compulsory from 22 November for inter-island travel...

Journalist attacked by anti-vaccine activists

by Ted Wood | Oct 24, 2021 | Area, Healthcare, New Caledonia, Politics

During a demonstration in front of the CPS (Pacific community) On Saturday 23rd, a journalist from the public channel NC Première was violently beaten by a group of demonstrators who had come to protest against compulsory...

Increase in tobacco prices

by Ted Wood | Oct 3, 2021 | Area, Economy, Healthcare, Wallis and Futuna

The Territorial Assembly of Wallis and Futuna voted last September to increase the price of...

Anti-vaccine demonstration during the lockdown…

by Ted Wood | Sep 25, 2021 | Area, Breaking News, Healthcare, New Caledonia, Politics

On Saturday 25 September around 2000 people demonstrated in Noumea against the obligation to be...

Covid the predicted catastrophe is coming to Caledonia

by Ted Wood | Sep 21, 2021 | Area, Breaking News, French Polynesia, Healthcare, New Caledonia

Caledonia is heading towards a Tahitian scenario. Since 6 September, 33 people have died from Covid in New Caledonia. The resuscitation department of the Dumbéa public hospital had 54 patients in intensive care on 21 September....

The New Caledonia-Wallis and Futuna bubble suspended

by Thomas Wilson | Sep 8, 2021 | Healthcare, Wallis and Futuna

Following the discovery of the first local coronavirus cases in New Caledonia, which is no longer...

Covid-19 explodes in French Polynesia

by Ted Wood | Aug 14, 2021 | Area, French Polynesia, Healthcare

New restrictions have been taken by the authorities. The virus is wreaking havoc in French...

422 Covid cases in Wallis and Futuna, 4 dead

by Thomas Wilson | Apr 7, 2021 | Breaking News, Healthcare, Wallis and Futuna

Since March 6, 422 Covid-19 positive cases have been identified in the archipelago. 412 on Wallis...

First Covid-19 related death in Wallis and Futuna

by Thomas Wilson | Mar 20, 2021 | Healthcare, Wallis and Futuna

An 83-year-old Futunian woman died on saturday 21 March, at Sia Hospital, on Wallis island, from...

Covid returns to Tahiti
The Covid-19 epidemic is back on the rise in French Polynesia. Sixty-six new cases were confirmed last week, according to Tahiti Infos. According to the health watch bulletin, the cases are mainly concentrated in Tahiti (46), then in the Tuamotus (11) and the Leeward Islands (6). The XBB.1.5 sub-variant, responsible for this upsurge, appears to be more contagious, but has so far caused very few serious cases.