Collected news stories, with a current focus on Covid-19 recovery
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Professor Dave Parry says Aotearoa’s borders are vulnerable to people gaining entry with fraudulent test documents.
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A public information campaign costing $3 million begins later this month, with another round later in April.
The Conversation
The approval of the first of four COVID-19 vaccines marks the first step in New Zealand's plans for a Pacific-wide immunisation rollout.
The Conversation
Multiple borders have always existed in Aotearoa New Zealand. We just weren't as aware of them before the pandemic started locking down communities.
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Kiwis travelling home from overseas are unable to book managed isolation as the system is full.
RNZ
New Zealand must wait its turn for Covid-19 vaccinations - but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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The leading Covid-19 modeller says it may come down to the symptoms someone experiences.
RNZ
Covid-19 jabs given to millions of people around the world will factor into the decision this week about whether Pfizer's vaccine can be used here.
Newshub
"We would take a dim view."
RNZ
The one-way travel bubble between New Zealand and Australia is reopening today, allowing travellers to enter Australia from New Zealand without going through quarantine.
The Spinoff
Ardern says the government is ready to 'accelerate' to meet the ambitious demands of the emissions budget laid down by the Climate Change Commission. Every home and business in the country will need to see a substantial shift in behaviour under far-reaching guidance just released by the Climate C
Newsroom
Rod Oram: We urgently need people power to push political and business leaders, households and individuals to play their roles in solving the climate crisis.
RNZ
The World Health Organization has criticised new EU export controls on Covid-19 vaccines, while New Zealand health officials are working to understand if it will slow its pandemic response.
RNZ
Thousands of people have asked the Ministry of Health for help after having trouble enabling Bluetooth on the Covid-19 tracer app.
Newshub
The number of infected people entering MIQ facilities at the border is increasing.
RNZ
The EU's drugs regulator has approved the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for all adults.
U.S.
Johnson & Johnson said on Friday that its single-dose vaccine was 66% effective in preventing COVID-19 in a large global trial against multiple variants, giving health officials another weapon to tackle the pandemic.
www.nature.com
Novavax’s experimental shot is highly effective against the variant identified in Britain — but saw a worrying drop in efficacy against a lineage detected in South Africa. Novavax’s experimental shot is highly effective against the variant identified in Britain — but saw a worrying drop in efficacy against a lineage detected in South Africa.
Newshub
Managed isolation is supposed to be the last line of defence against COVID-19.
RNZ
A wine delivery, a note on a facemask and a 20-minute bedroom "encounter" have spelled the end of a managed isolation staffer's job.
Stuff
Trev Ponting only has months to live and wants to see his family in New Zealand before he dies. But he doesn't meet the criteria for urgent travel.
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In recordings uploaded online, the owner can be heard defending the lack of QR codes due to having a sign-in book and another alternative method.
1 NEWS
The worker at the Auckland Grand Millennium Hotel has since been fired.
NZ Herald
A woman believes one of her daughters caught Covid-19 while at the Pullman hotel.
The Conversation
With quarantine infection numbers and border failures likely to keep increasing, the case for stricter travel restrictions is clear.
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