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TESS NEWTON CAIN<\/a>\u00a0AND DAN MCGARRY |\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the latest news about the Covid-19 outbreak across the Pacific, from Dan McGarry and Tess Newton Cain on Wednesday 24 June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The total number of cases of Covid-19 infection listed by the World Health Organization for the region stands at 352, an increase of 38 since last week \u2013 a reminder that although infection rates may be slowing in the region, the crisis is far from over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US inability \u2013 or unwillingness \u2013 to cope with coronavirus is affecting the Pacific. A spate of new cases have been reported on Guam\u2019s largest air force base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This raises fears not only in the north Pacific, where travellers from the US have been responsible for every new case for more than a month, but for tourism-dependent countries including French Polynesia, Fiji and Cook Islands<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerns are rising throughout the Pacific that governments are not doing enough to safeguard civil liberties or to respect fundamental democratic principles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some argue that \u2018securitisation\u2019 of the Covid-19 response has provided Pacific leaders with the means to indulge autocratic tendencies. The prolonged states of emergency in several nations have raised constitutional questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please click here to read the full \u201cCoronavirus in the Pacific: weekly briefing<\/a>\u201d article published at Guardian<\/a>, written by Griffith Asia Institute<\/a>, adjunct researcher, Tess Newton Cain<\/a> and Dan McGarry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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This global forum is of prime importance to Pacific island countries given the leadership their negotiators have provided over many years. 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