Dateline Pacific for 18 March 2020

Doctors in South Auckland say their district is at high risk of a community outbreak of Covid-19; consultations on the outcome of the referendum will not begin until after this years's election in Bougainville; Pacific Islanders who visited an exhibition about the Tahitian navigator Tupaia say they are inspired to share his story; the Guam Fishermen's Co-operative is fighting a pending ban on fishing by scuba divers; a Fiji author who recently published her debut novel says she hopes to inspire more Fijians to take up writing.