Collected news stories, with a current focus on Covid-19 recovery
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With vaccine mandates kicking in next Monday, the Teaching Council code of professional responsibility offers a guide to handling staffroom divides – if it’s used with care.
Stuff
"Hulk the hauora bus” will soon be patrolling the streets of Nelson to help whānau get vaccinated.
Keep track of vaccination rates across Aotearoa with 1News' graphs.
RNZ
All passengers on Air New Zealand domestic flights will need to be fully vaccinated or have a negative Covid-19 test from mid-December.
RNZ
A small King Country school expects all of its staff will be banned from its classrooms when the government's vaccine mandate takes effect next week.
Newsroom
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says Cabinet will consider alert level settings for the whole country on November 29. It could include a move to the traffic light system for DHBs that haven't yet met the 90 percent target, to prompt the unvaccinated to get jabbed.
RNZ
It is going to be a hard slog getting people back for their second doses - that's the message from on the ground in Counties Manukau. Yesterday, first doses in the DHB ticked over to 90 percent - joining the other two Auckland DHBs. If all return for their second jab, in three weeks Auckland could move to the new traffic light system, and the freedoms that come with it, just in time for the Prime Minister's planned check-in on the cities vaccine rates. Louise Ternouth reports.
Stuff
It's been named the best country in the world to visit in 2022 and Kiwis will be the only visitors initially. But there's homework to do.
NZ Herald
'We are in the world of trade-offs.'
RNZ
It is day 83 of lockdown for Aucklanders, and many feel that rising case numbers will overshadow any reprieve in restrictions this week.
Stuff
Healthcare workers on the sharp end of the pandemic are not just fighting a war against Covid-19, but combating a never-ending scourge of misinformation about the disease.
RNZ
Church minister Suiva'aia Te'o says proactive communication, compassion and clear information have led to a fully vaccinated congregation.
RNZ
As a big portion of the country rolls up their sleeves for a second vaccination this weekend, 89 percent of eligible New Zealanders have had their first dose and 78 percent are fully vaccinated.
Stuff
A public health experts says it will be a “significant achievement", but the challenge is to get the same number doubled dosed.
Newshub
Pharmac has added Baricitinib to an ever-growing arsenal of anti-virals and drugs.
Stuff
Luke MacLean-McMahon was a healthy 32-year-old, but Covid has left him unable to drive and his heart scarred. Experts warn many more may end up like him.
NZ Herald
PM says Aucklanders can leave for summer, but Govt still working out exactly how.
RNZ
Another person has escaped from an Auckland MIQ facility and is a close contact with family members who have the virus.
The DHB is about 15,000 second doses away from the milestone.
RNZ
The company stopped clinical trials early because initial results for the drug were so positive.
ZB
Tens of thousands of music lovers will be keeping their fingers crossed this summer's Rhythm & Vines can go ahead in a Gisborne region that is one of t
Stuff
The Ministry of Health says the virus samples could be from recovered cases returning to the region from MIQ, transient visitors to the region, or could signal undetected cases in the community.
Prime Minister Mark Brown said keeping the borders closed indefinitely was no longer viable.
Stuff
The Government has outlined details of two types of vaccine passes to be released later in November.
Stuff
Vaccine certificates are likely to be the ticket to travel if Auckland's border is still in place, deputy PM says.
Stuff
Anyone who has been fully vaccinated for more than six months can receive their booster from today.
Stuff
Breathlessness and fatigue are the real warning signs, experts say, after two men died while in self-isolation this week.
RNZ
Explainer - Sometime soon, the alert level system which is becoming increasingly complex, will be replaced with traffic lights. Join RNZ for a journey into the future to see what that means.
Keep track of vaccination rates across Aotearoa with 1News' graphs.
Stuff
Shops will open and gatherings of up to 25 people can happen outside - here's the rundown of the step 2 rules.
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