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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Below are headlines being shared today (2 April 2020) from around the Pacific;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Close to 500 under quarantine, confirms Fiji Health Ministry</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">SUVA, 02 APRIL 2020 (FIJI TIMES) -Close to 500 people are still under quarantine in Fiji due to COVID-19 Pandemic
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<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">COVID-19: 48 arrested on third day for breaching curfew hours in Fiji</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">SUVA, 02 APRIL 2020 (FIJI TIMES) ---Forty-eight more people were arrested for breaching curfew hours from 10pm last night to 5am this morning throughout Fiji
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<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nauru's Covid-19 preparations boosted</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">YAREN, 02 APRIL 2020 (RNZ PACIFIC)-Nauru's Covid-19 preparations are set for a boost with Taiwan donating a testing machine
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<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Covid-19: NZ Police pushed to release lockdown guidelines</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">WELLINGTON, 02 APRIL 2020 (NEWSROOM)-Police have come under pressure to release legal advice and guidance on how they are using the emergency powers granted to them during
New Zealand's coronavirus lockdown </span><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/covid-19-police-pushed-to-release-lockdown-guidelines/ar-BB122G5y?li=BBSVtLJ"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Read
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<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Covid-19 pandemic poses gravest threat to worlds poorest countries</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">SYDNEY, 02 APRIL 2020 (WORLD SOCIALIST WEBSITE)-The coronavirus has begun to take hold in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific Islands, threatening
some of the most impoverished people on earth </span><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/01/poor-a01.html"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Read More.</span></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PNG Tourism will take time to recover: Agus</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">PORT MORESBY, 02 APRIL 2020 (POST COURIER) -It could take the Papua New Guinea tourism industry over a year to recover from Covid-19 and its direct impacts to the industry
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<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Low-skilled workers, developing countries at risk of steep economic decline as coronavirus advances</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">NEW YORK, 02 APRIL 2020 (UN NEWS CENTRE) -The global economy could shrink by up to one per cent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and may contract even further if restrictions
on economic activities are extended without adequate fiscal responses, according to analysis released today by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
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<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">China and Australia target Pacific with coronavirus aid</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">SYDNEY, 02 APRIL 2020 (REUTERS)-Beijing has ramped up its diplomatic push into the Pacific, pledging coronavirus aid and medical advice, although its efforts are being impeded
as islands close borders to stop the spread of the disease from hotspots including China
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">CANBERRA, 02 APRIL 2020 (DFAT)-Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic represents a significant challenge for governments and communities across the Pacific. It is a challenge
the Australian Government is committed to tackling with our Pacific partners, in the long-term interest of the stability, prosperity and resilience of our region
</span><a href="https://www.foreignminister.gov.au/minister/marise-payne/media-release/responding-covid-19-challenge-pacific"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Read On</span></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Virus claims third life on Guam, 77 confirmed cases</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">HAGTANA, 02 APRIL 2020 (THE GUAM DAILY POST)-An 81-year-old man who contracted COVID-19 died at Guam Memorial Hospital midday Wednesday
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<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lautoka lockdown extended to Tuesday: Fiji Health Minister</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">SUVA, 02 APRIL 2020 (FBC NEWS) -The Lautoka lockdown has been extended until Tuesday next week as Fiji Government wants to ensure there are no COVID-19 cases are left undetected
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<p><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S Navy to quarantine sailors in hotels on Guam
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<p><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">HAGATNA, 02 APRIL 2020 (THE GUAM DAILY POST)-Some of the USS Theodore Roosevelt's sailors who will test clear of COVID-19 will be quarantined in unnamed Guam hotels as military
officials work to decontaminate the aircraft carrier and separate them from sailors who have fallen ill from the rapidly spreading virus
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