Safely lifting the borders to international travellers is the next priority for the Cook Islands government, after the repatriation of its remaining residents stuck in Auckland by the end of this month.
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Cook Islands residents finally return home after NZ lockdown
The first group of Cook Islands residents have finally returned home to Rarotonga since becoming stuck in New Zealand due to the Covid-19 alert level 4 lockdown six weeks ago.
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Cook Islands may shorten quarantine time for tourists
The Cook Islands Ministry of Health, Te Marae Ora, are planning to keep their paradise islands Covid-19 free.
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Cook Islands businesses optimistic about tourists return
With the Cook Islands set to re-open their borders in a few weeks' time for returning residents stuck in lockdown in New Zealand, local businesses are eager for tourists to return - including one Māori family of entrepreneurs.
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Māori relieved Cook Islands is Covid-19 free
The Cook Islands is officially Covid-19 free, as announced by Prime Minister Henry Puna following the negative results of more than 900 tests.
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Cook Island planters make use of Government agriculture package
Cook Islands' Ministry of Agriculture is offering free seedlings, fertiliser, organic pesticides and tractor-work for growers and home gardeners to provide food security as part of its' emergency COVID-19 support package.
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NewsCook Islands offers growers assistance to ensure food security
The Cook Islands Ministry of Agriculture is offering free seedlings, fertiliser, organic pesticides and tractor-work for growers and home gardeners to provide food security as part of its emergency COVID-19 support package. Food vendor, Tai Napa Tapuvae, is taking up the offer to supplement the family business income that has come to a halt.
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COVID-19 brings Māori business in Rarotonga to a standstill
Although the Cook Islands remains COVID-19 free with negative results from all 275 tests, the countrys' tourism industry has come to a standstill.
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Pasifika leaders determined to protect Māori/Pasifika from Coronavirus
The Pacific Leadership Forum, a council of leaders from the Pacific community are determined to stop the spread of COVID-19. They recognise that their ethnicities are at the highest risk from this virus, and the possible effects of it on Māori. Teleiai Edwin Puni, chairman of the Forum explains: “It is a responsible action by our Pacific [communities]. Because we live closely with our Māori whānau(s), in the same neighbourhood(s). “By being responsible with the prevention and the readiness, it also protects our Māori and the people of Aotearoa.”
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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.”
