French Polynesia

French Polynesia's president says he hopes last week's border closure ordered by Paris because of the Covid-19 pandemic won't exceed three months.

French Polynesia's Covid-19 death toll has reached 133 as the border closed again and the vaccination programme continued in earnest.

French Polynesia has recorded another Covid-19 death, raising the pandemic's tally to 132.

Tourism is set to suffer a sharp decline in French Polynesia as the territory is about to close the border.

Phase one of French Polynesia's Covid-19 vaccination programme has now reached over 1900 people since 18 January.

Homeless Tahitians are to receive a new day centre outside French Polynesia's capital, Papeete.

Another person has died over the weekend in French Polynesia's Covid-19 pandemic, raising the death toll to 127.

The second wave of Covid-19 is ebbing in French Polynesia as daily infection rates have dropped to below 100.

French Polynesia has recorded four Covid-19 deaths since the start of the year, raising the pandemic's tally to 121.

The French Polynesian government has agreed to subsidise the domestic carrier Air Tahiti for another six months to maintain loss-making routes.

France's highest court has quashed a ruling made in French Polynesia, which had fined a former president Gaston Flosse.

The death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic in French Polynesia has risen to 103.

The appeal court in French Polynesia has convicted and fined the president Edouard Fritch and his predecessor Gaston Flosse for abusing public funds.

French Polynesia has extended its curfew until mid-January in a bid to weaken the Covid-19 outbreak.

French Polynesia has recorded four more Covid-19 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Tahiti has recorded seven more deaths from Covid-19 in the last four days, bringing the total number of fatalities in the territory to 86.

French Polynesia was returned to the decolonisation list by the UN General Assembly in 2013. The French want it taken off.

Another person has died from Covid-19 in French Polynesia as case numbers have now topped 15,000.

French Polynesia has recorded another death from Covid-19, bringing the total number of fatalities there to 78.