COVID-19 – the Pacific response: 16 December
16 December 2020
Travel bubbles are being planned throughout the Pacific, whilst many Pacific states are launching their vaccine rollout plans, Hugh McClure writes.
Seven Pacific Island countries and territories have recorded additional cases of COVID-19 this week.
725 cases have now been recorded in Papua New Guinea. The death of a West New Britain man this week brings the country’s COVID-19 death toll to eight. One new case has been recorded in Fiji, bringing its total to 46. In Guam, 6,969 cases and 118 deaths have now been recorded, while 113 cases have been identified in the Northern Mariana Islands. One positive test result has been returned in New Caledonia this week, bringing its total to 36.
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Photo: Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat
The decision was taken during Friday s virtual leaders summit to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement.
The leaders have endorsed the development of a 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent ahead of next year s COP26 in the UK.
The leaders also renewed their commitment to progress the implementation of the Paris Accord.
The forum acknowledged the need for urgent and immediate actions against the threats and challenges of climate change.
Forum chair and Tuvalu Prime Minister, Kausea Natano, called for immediate action and not just discussion of ambition . Five years on, we must now ask ourselves, are we making the necessary policy and behavioural change to keep us on the 1.5-degree pathway from the perspective of the Blue Pacific?
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