1 March – Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison tests positive for COVID-19 hours after meeting with President Aingimea.
24 March – New Zealand announces it will take in 450 asylum seekers from Australia or its offshore detention centre in Nauru.
2 April – Nauru announces its first two cases of COVID-19, after it is detected on a flight from Brisbane. The infected passengers were quarantined in Republic of Nauru Hospital.
8 June – The parliament of Nauru passes a constitutional amendment, which requires members of parliament to either be, or be descended from, Nauruan citizens born before, or on, the nation's independence on 30 January 1968.
25 June – This was the first day for the age group of children 5-11 to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations.
1 July – Nauru experiences its first death from COVID-19, later revealed to be Olympian weightlifter Reanna Solomon.
1 October – The deal designating Nauru as Australia's regional processing centre lapses after the Australian Department of Home Affairs fails to alert Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil about the deal's expiration.
15 November – President Kun meets with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei.
22 November – The first group of refugees, six in total, to be resettled from the Australian offshore detention centers in Nauru arrive in Auckland, New Zealand, nine years after New Zealand offered to take in the refugees from Nauru.
Deaths
1 July – Reanna Solomon, Olympian weightlifter (b. 1981).
References
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