New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna have recorded their first Covid-19 community cases.
The two territories had been in a bubble since June, and until the weekend they were the only French-administered territories without local Covid-19 cases.
The authorities are now scrambling to contain the outbreak.
I asked Walter Zweifel of RNZ Pacific if the source of the outbreak has been identified.
Advisory over Covid-19 issued in Kanak languages Photo: supplied