New Zealand's Foreign Ministry has postponed the upcoming Pacific Mission, scheduled to be led by Foreign Minister Winston Peters, due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The trip was meant to be for just over a week in late March.
Peters and a delegation of businesspeople, MPs and journalists were meant to visit Samoa, Tonga, Niue and Cook Islands.
But in an email, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Mfat) said the trip had been put on ice for at least a month.
"Regretfully, in light of the pressure that the preparation and response to Covid-19 (coronavirus) is placing on our Pacific host country governments, we have decided to defer the Pacific Mission at this time."