Collected news stories, with a current focus on Covid-19 recovery
Stuff
A nation-wide lockdown is imminent in Fiji as authorities scramble to screen and test hot-spot areas.
RNZ
Flights between Western Australia and New Zealand have been paused once again, after another Covid-19 outbreak linked to a Perth quarantine hotel.
Stuff
“It’s been very, very unpleasant, very unprofessional, and it’s devastating," a sacked worker says.
A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned Indian officials in early March of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold in the country, five scientists who are part of the forum told Reuters.
RNZ
New Zealand aid organisation Tearfund is providing one month's food supplies and hygiene products to 600 families in India as Covid-19 cases continue to surge.
RNZ
Some passengers who flew from Brisbane to New Zealand on Thursday are now being told to self-isolate, after a green-zone breach at Brisbane Airport.
Stuff
May marks the beginning of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out for 1.7m Kiwis in group 3, but at present there are fewer than 430,000 doses on ice.
1 NEWS
The Ministry of Health says the risk to the public is low.
RNZ
Tourism Industry Aotearoa chief executive Chris Roberts said in the nine days since the trans-Tasman bubble opened there were 30,000 arrivals in New Zealand.
1 NEWS
The person didn't spend the two weeks in New Zealand as required.
Stuff
Two higher-risk passengers mixed with travel bubble passengers in Brisbane Airport. Physical separation at Auckland and Christchurch airports mean this kind of blunder wouldn't easily happen.
Stuff
The government’s distraction and complacency have amplified the coronavirus surge.
Newsroom
Vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris methodically takes apart eight of the most dangerous and untrue pieces of propaganda about vaccines circulating in NZ,
Stuff
A third more travellers are coming into New Zealand than going under the trans-Tasman bubble. So where are they heading?
Stuff
Authorities say 246 people who were in Melbourne’s western and north-western suburbs were contacted on Thursday and told to get tested as a precaution.
India's total COVID-19 cases passed 18 million on Thursday after another world record daily infection as gravediggers worked around the clock burying victims and rows of funeral pyres were built in parks and parking lots.
RNZ
People arriving in New Zealand from Brisbane are being asked to monitor their health for the next 14 days, after a reported green zone breach at Brisbane Airport.
Newshub
Jacinda Ardern says there are no plans for repatriation flights.
Newshub
Scientists and health experts say the group is spreading misinformation.
India records more than 300,000 new infections for the seventh straight day as more countries promise to send rapid aid.
Newshub
The bubble is open, but international travel still isn't what it used to be.
Asia Times
The World Health Organization said Tuesday that a variant of Covid-19 feared to be contributing to a surge in coronavirus cases in India has been found in more than a dozen countries. The UN health…
RNZ
Associate Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall says the government has a clear plan to ensure that everyone aged 16 and over will be vaccinated by the end of the year.
1 NEWS
The Director-General of Health outlined penalties for those breaking the Air Border Order.
Newsroom
Vaccines will reduce the risk of an MIQ breach but they won't make the border bulletproof.
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