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The New South Wales Premier has announced a strict lockdown for all of Greater Sydney after a recent spike in positive coronavirus cases in the Australian city.
RNZ
Covid-19 testing has slowed down in Wellington, but Friday saw the city's SCL laboratory process a record 3760 tests.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said a crisis Cabinet meeting would be held later on Saturday as situation ‘worsens’.
Māori Television
One traveller was detected by Customs, the other had cleared the airport e-gates and rang Healthline for advice "soon afterwards", the Health Ministry said.
Newshub
Here's the latest on the pandemic from around the world overnight.
Newshub
That's two months before the first case was identified in the central city of Wuhan.
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While many Pasifika meet the criteria to get vaccinated, they’ve had issues with accessing bookings.
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Epidemiologist Michael Baker has expressed his disappointment given the "unforgiving" nature of the Delta variant.
Newshub
"If we don't see enough around the border controls for the state that is experiencing an outbreak, that's something that we'd give consideration to."
RNZ
Although there are no Covid-19 cases in the community today, Ashley Bloomfield says the numbers at the moment suggest about 100 people were in the two bars at the relevant times.
Stuff
So far, so good. But how can an infected man spend a weekend in Wellington and not pass on the virus?
RNZ
A top Covid-19 modeller says the tools that worked to fight Covid-19 last year are not enough to battle the Delta variant, and points to Sydney where the virus is outpacing efforts to control it. Rodney Jones is warning that until New Zealand gets more of the population vaccinated, the country will be holding its breath that the more transmissible variant doesn't enter the country. Wellington is still on high alert after a visitor from Sydney over the weekend later tested positive for Covid-19. Two days of testing in the capital has yet to return any positive cases in the community but today the first of the crucial 'day five' test results are expected. Rodney Jones provides Covid-19 modelling information to the government.
A Covid-19 scare in Wellington is a warning Dunedin is not exempt, a University of Otago academic says. Lianne Parkin, from the Department of...
Asia Times
The theory that the Covid-19 pandemic was triggered by the Sars-CoV-2 virus being leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China was recently given new life following an explosive article in …
1 NEWS
"So far so good," the Director-General of Health told Breakfast.
Newsroom
In our search for herd immunity, Nicholas Agar looks at factors making people reluctant to accept safe and effective vaccines, arguing we should focus on modes of delivery less likely to provoke anxieties.
Newshub
Over 2 million people in England might have had long COVID.
RNZ
On Wednesday morning, at the same time as news filtered out of a positive Covid-19 case going on a tiki-tour of Wellington, an operation was being executed with military precision at a retirement village in the Auckland suburb of Remuera. The Detail's Emile Donovan went along to see how an operation like this is run; how residents are feeling about it; and talk about how the 70-plus demographic has first-hand experience of the difference a vaccine can make.
NZ Herald
Key question remains if traveller had 'explosive' Delta variant.
RNZ
A hairdresser and a restaurant manager are among new cases across the ditch.
RNZ
Several people that Kahungunu ki Pōneke Community Services had met with had not heard of the alert level changes in Wellington.
Newshub
Chinese scientists mysteriously deleted data about the coronavirus' genetic sequence collected in January 2020.
1 NEWS
It comes with Wellington at Alert Level 2 following a Covid-positive tourist's visit.
Newshub
Here's the latest.
RNZ
Event cancellations and temporary closures have flowed thick and fast in Wellington, following the news of the city's move to alert level 2, including the Wellington Marathon, Te Papa and the Marriage of Figaro opera.
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