Collected news stories, with a current focus on Covid-19 recovery
RNZ
Police have now prosecuted nearly 1000 Covid-related breaches, but are not being called upon to take action against those defying isolation or testing orders.
1 NEWS
“If we're going to start to see any big number of cases we’d expect to see evidence of that in the next 24 to 48 hours," The Covid-19 Response Minister says.
1 NEWS
The app has been dubbed "the future of healthcare" by epidemiologist Michael Baker.
Newshub
A man was given a written warning as a result.
The Spinoff
The Covid-19 cluster linked to Papatoetoe High School emerges as the first batch of vaccines arrived on our shores. A number of people now are calling for jabs for the community to be expedited. Phil Goff has called for Auckland to be prioritised in the public rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine. “As
The Spinoff
Amid reports of confusing information being given to people after Covid tests, we asked our readers what they’d been told – and sought to clarify what the rules really are. When one of the people who has now been confirmed as having Covid-19 went to work at KFC, it represented an apparent breakdo
Southern port workers yesterday became the first people in the region to receive a Covid-19 vaccination. An initial 30 workers at Port Chalmers...
Pundit
There’s an existing legal power to make people self-isolate. Failing to comply with such a requirement can attract reasonably severe sanctions. Why, then, do we not start hanging some more admirals pour encourager les autres?
Opinion: Air New Zealand is to trial digital 'vaccine passports' on trans-Tasman routes in April, but there are some serious things to consider before we adopt them, writes Tim Dare.
RNZ
Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield is "reluctant" to refer those in the Papatoetoe cluster who breached lockdown restrictions to police.
Newsroom
Data provided by the Ministry of Health shows daily QR scan numbers spike whenever alert levels are raised but quickly subside when normality returns.
Stuff
As Covid-19 cluster simmers around Papatoetoe High School, the messaging for young people is being called too old, stale and pale.
RNZ
"I'm asking everyone ... to back and support one another and if that means calling a family member or colleague out for not following the rules then we should do that. Do it with kindness, but do it."
Newsroom
As the Government battles Covid complacency and non-compliance the PM has given the team of five million permission to self-police the rule-breakers. The complete change of tune from the top is just one of many mixed messages in recent days, writes political editor Jo Moir.
Newshub
"It's a pretty serious botch up really".
RNZ
NZ's Pasifika community has been living and working on the front line of the Covid-19 pandemic, since the coronavirus arrived a year ago.
1 NEWS
The Director-General of Health revealed exactly what that interaction was.
Stuff
While Jacinda Ardern says there's growing frustration over lockdown breaches, Ashley Bloomfield has met with the police commissioner about how the rules should be enforced.
RNZ
Jacinda Ardern says she gets that everyone is angry over the latest community cases after it emerged there was contact between two families, but the important thing is to fix the situation.
Māori Television
The fourth lockdown in Auckland is hurting its local economy.
Newshub
It's unclear if the families lied about their contact, or just forgot - but either way the result is the same.
Māori Television
Questions are being raised about the quality of the government's contact tracing regime in light of the recent Covid positive cases.
Newsroom
Why are people - particularly young people - not obeying isolation orders? Dr Celia Lie examines the behaviours behind compliance to Covid guidelines.
Stuff
"Weak positive" results have been found from testing wastewater samples in Christchurch, Rotorua and Queenstown, along with Wellington.
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The University of Canterbury
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Opinion: Helen Petousis-Harris takes apart eight of the most dangerous and untrue pieces of propaganda currently circulating in NZ about Covid-19 vaccines.
RNZ
Explainer - Who gets the Covid-19 vaccine, and when? RNZ is here to clear it all up.
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