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The Marshall Islands is fast-tracking quarantine facilities and safety supplies to prepare for what authorities believe is an inevitable arrival of the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Samoa has issued a blanket ban on all cruise ships wanting to visit as part of its on going prevention plans against the novel coronavirus.

F1 champion Lewis Hamilton and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi share Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award, with the voting tied for the first time in the awards' 20-year history.

At least 6000 people have been screened for the coronavirus in Papua New Guinea over the past three weeks.

The Marshall Islands has issued an indefinite ban on all international travel by government employees and elected leaders to reduce risk of importing the coronavirus.

An American man and a Japanese man have died of the new coronavirus.

Thirty Pacific islanders are being quarantined at a New Zealand military base, following their evacuation from China.

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The Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands have strengthened travel bans in reaction to the coronavirus, writes Giff Johnson.

Jack and Carrie Lum are celebrating 50 years of love, family and hard work among the fruit and vege cartons, but their livelihood is under threat from big business 

New Zealand will team up with Australia to get citizens out of the Chinese city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed.

Several Pacific countries have taken heavy-handed measures in an effort to stop a new and largely unknown coronavirus from taking hold in a region already strained by several severe epidemics. Audio

Samoa's Ministry of Health has confirmed that two Samoan sailors are in quarantine for 14 days at the Faleolo District Hospital amid fears they might be carrying China's coronavirus.

The coronavirus outbreak that began in Wuhan has killed 80 people in China so far and infected more than 2750 globally, updated figures show.

China is marking the Lunar New Year, one of the most important dates in its calendar, while concerns grow about the coronavirus outbreak.

Deaths from China's new virus rose to 17, with more than 540 cases confirmed.

Chinese authorities have advised people to stop travel into and out of Wuhan, the city at the centre of a new virus that has killed nine.

An 18-year-old tourist who got lost while walking the Tongariro Northern Circuit was rescued after his personal locator beacon was activated.

Nine people have now died of the Wuhan coronavirus in China, health officials say, with 440 confirmed cases.

In today's sports news - Verstappen wins in Brazil, Italian rugby coach Conor O'Shea resigns and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck wins league gong.

The extradition bill is formally withdrawn by the legislature but the move is unlikely to quell unrest.

Mass protests in Hong Kong are continuing into their tenth week, and Aucklanders are weighing in on the which side of the fight they're on.

Hong Kong is bracing for more mass demonstrations through the weekend, with the weeks-long crisis escalating after pro-democracy protests forced the cancellation of nearly 1,000 flights this week.