French Polynesia

The owner of a Taiwanese fishing boat abandoned in French Polynesia three years ago has been fined almost $US10 million for failing to comply with environmental standards.

French Polynesia has recorded another 18 Covid-19 infections, raising the total for this month to 353.

French Polynesia's churches have been allowed to stay open despite a rapid rise in Covid-19 infections.

French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has announced his intention to run for a seat in the French Senate.

Seven people with Covid-19 in French Polynesia are now in hospital, including three in intensive care.

French Polynesia has recorded another 35 cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number of infections in latest outbreak of the coronavirus to 287.

A Papeete school will reopen this week despite a surge in Covid-19 cases in French Polynesia.

French Polynesia has recorded its biggest single-day increase in Covid-19 infections.

The French Polynesian president Edouard Fritch says more than 600 people were refused boarding in Paris and Los Angeles in the past month for failing to meet the requirements to enter Tahiti.

Two adult education centres in French Polynesia have been closed after an employee tested positive for Covid-19.

French Polynesia has recorded a further 19 Covid-19 cases, bringing its total in the current outbreak to 149.

The Covid-19 outbreak in French Polynesia has prompted a week-long closure of several schools on Tahiti.

French Polynesia has recorded more than 100 Covid-19 cases in the past week, bringing the total of second wave of infections to 130.

French Polynesia has recorded another 11 Covid-19 cases in the past day.

The French High Commissioner in French Polynesia says 51 of 72 members of a French mobile police squad tested positive for Covid-19 on return to France.

A French Polynesian union has called for the reintroduction of a mandatory 14-day quarantine for those arriving from overseas.