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The Pacific Rugby Players Welfare group is stressing caution over big promises being made by the two contenders for the World Rugby Chairmanship.

The Oceania Football Confederation has created a solidarity fund to support staff, volunteers, players, coaches, referees and the region's wider football community during the coronavirus pandemic.

Fiji Rugby Union Chair Francis Kean is one of eight nominations competing for seven available positions on the powerful World Rugby Executive Committee.

Fiji's Prime Minister says the lockdown in Suva will not be lifted until the government is satisfied the number people screened has improved.

The deaths of 128,445 people have now been linked to Covid-19 around the world, with the US reaching a record daily toll for deaths, and South Koreans head to the poll with strict hygiene measures.

The World Bank has committed $US20m to Papua New Guinea in health assistance for the country's Covid-19 response.

The government is discussing how it can support or repatriate immigrants who have lost their job during the Covid-19 lockdown, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.

More than 1.9 million people have been reported to be infected by Covid-19 globally and more than 119,000 have died, according to the John Hopkins University coronavirus tracking map.

The owners of the Burger King franchise in New Zealand have been placed in receivership owing more than $65 million.

The country's arts development agency, Creative New Zealand, said despite the current challenges it faced the sector was showing signs of a creative revival.

The United Nations has issued messages of support for the Pacific following the destruction caused by Cyclone Harold last week.

More than 1.7 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 108,252 have died so far.

Eighty new flights of freight-only passenger planes are scheduled to land at Auckland Airport in the next four weeks.

Agustin Pichot will run against incumbent Bill Beaumont for the top job in World Rugby this month.

Tax collections in the Marshall Islands are already dropping as local businesses layoff workers in the face of disruptions related to Covid-19.

Tens of thousands of people in Fiji will mark the Easter holiday weekend without electricity because power supply to almost 80 percent of homes in the country is yet to be restored.

There are now 13 significant Covid-19 clusters in New Zealand, including a new one which is linked to a Christchurch aged care facility. Follow our live blog here.

Relief efforts are swinging into action in Vanuatu after a powerful cyclone devastated several islands this week.

A second New Zealander has died from Covid-19, while the number of new cases rose to a total of 1283 in another dramatic day during the alert-four lockdown.

A new website dedicated to providing information on Covid-19 for Pacific communities across New Zealand has launched this week.