Dateline Pacific for 19 March 2020

Pacific countries prepare for the inevitable arrival of Covid-19; eight people are dead and about 20,000 are thought to have been affected by flooding and landslides in Solomon Islands; it's election day in Vanuatu, where voters must select 52 members of parliament; the President of Bougainville says he wants to contest this year's election because the people have pleaded with him to stay; the Manuma Samoa rugby team are spending two weeks in self-isolation in New Zealand.