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March 14, 2020
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced late today wide-ranging travel restrictions which mean as of midnight tomorrow anyone coming into New Zealand will have to self-isolate for 14 days. The only exemption is for people coming from the Pacific islands, but New Zealanders returning from overseas will not be exempt. The measures will ... <a title="New travel curbs require almost everyone entering NZ to self-isolate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/new-travel-curbs-require-almost-everyone-entering-nz-to-self-isolate/" aria-label="Read more about New travel curbs require almost everyone entering NZ to self-isolate">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lotti Tajouri, Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Bond University Viruses are the most common biological entities on Earth. Experts estimate there are around 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them, and if they were all lined up they would stretch from one side of the galaxy to the other. You can think ... <a title="What is a virus? How do they spread? How do they make us sick?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/what-is-a-virus-how-do-they-spread-how-do-they-make-us-sick-133437/" aria-label="Read more about What is a virus? How do they spread? How do they make us sick?">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Boddy, Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School (Learning and Teaching), Griffith University As the COVID-19 outbreak intensifies, we’re seeing mass isolation in virus epicentres, with about 500 million people in China “under varying degrees of quarantine”, and all of Italy in lockdown. In Australia, self-isolation ... <a title="‘Cabin fever’: Australia must prepare for the social and psychological impacts of a coronavirus lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/cabin-fever-australia-must-prepare-for-the-social-and-psychological-impacts-of-a-coronavirus-lockdown-133353/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Cabin fever’: Australia must prepare for the social and psychological impacts of a coronavirus lockdown">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoffrey Mann, Sessional Lecturer, RMIT University Working from home is already so common it has its own acronym, and it’s about to get even more common still. Companies like Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are now advising employees to “WFH” to avoid exposure to the novel coronavirus. But ... <a title="Working at home to avoid coronavirus? This tech lets you (almost) replicate the office" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/working-at-home-to-avoid-coronavirus-this-tech-lets-you-almost-replicate-the-office-133350/" aria-label="Read more about Working at home to avoid coronavirus? This tech lets you (almost) replicate the office">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It was a sensational day in the ever-escalating coronavirus story, with Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton on Friday testing positive for COVID-19 and admitted to hospital. Meanwhile, sporting and other organisations prepared for massive changes, after the government’s announcement of ... <a title="View from The Hill: Coronavirus hits at the heart of Morrison’s government, with Peter Dutton infected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/view-from-the-hill-coronavirus-hits-at-the-heart-of-morrisons-government-with-peter-dutton-infected-133634/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Coronavirus hits at the heart of Morrison’s government, with Peter Dutton infected">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian National University Holding daily press conferences to keep people alert but not alarmed is an inherently tricky business. But “fast, frank and frequent” have been the watchwords for Health Minister Greg Hunt and Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy in dealing with the coronavirus ... <a title="Viral spiral: the federal government is playing a risky game with mixed messages on coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/viral-spiral-the-federal-government-is-playing-a-risky-game-with-mixed-messages-on-coronavirus-133508/" aria-label="Read more about Viral spiral: the federal government is playing a risky game with mixed messages on coronavirus">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eileen Webb, Professor of Law and Ageing, School of Law, University of South Australia Imagine you have just bought a home. You have moved in and, during a friendly chat with the neighbours, you find out the property had been the scene of a serious crime or ... <a title="When your house has a (disturbing) history, what should buyers be told about its ‘past’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/when-your-house-has-a-disturbing-history-what-should-buyers-be-told-about-its-past-132766/" aria-label="Read more about When your house has a (disturbing) history, what should buyers be told about its ‘past’?">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Centaine Snoswell, Research Fellow Health Economics, The University of Queensland From tomorrow, some Australians will be able to consult their doctor or other health professional with a bulk-billed videocall rather than in person, in a move designed to limit the spread of the coronavirus among vulnerable people. ... <a title="Want to Skype your GP to avoid exposure to the coronavirus? Here’s what you need to know about the new telehealth option" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/want-to-skype-your-gp-to-avoid-exposure-to-the-coronavirus-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-new-telehealth-option-133433/" aria-label="Read more about Want to Skype your GP to avoid exposure to the coronavirus? Here’s what you need to know about the new telehealth option">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Komesaroff, Professor of Medicine, Monash University The global coronavirus pandemic poses immediate, wide-ranging ethical challenges for governments, health authorities, health workers and the public. At the heart of these challenges is how best to respond to COVID-19 urgently, yet safely and fairly. How do we ensure ... <a title="The coronavirus pandemic is forcing us to ask some very hard questions. But are we ready for the answers?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/the-coronavirus-pandemic-is-forcing-us-to-ask-some-very-hard-questions-but-are-we-ready-for-the-answers-132581/" aria-label="Read more about The coronavirus pandemic is forcing us to ask some very hard questions. But are we ready for the answers?">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Latty, Associate professor, University of Sydney It’s nigh on impossible to calculate with accuracy how many ants are on Earth, but estimates put the number at about ten billion billion. And sometimes, it can feel like a good proportion of those ants are marching through our ... <a title="Why tiny ants have invaded your house, and what to do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/why-tiny-ants-have-invaded-your-house-and-what-to-do-about-it-132092/" aria-label="Read more about Why tiny ants have invaded your house, and what to do about it">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Downie, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, Australian National University The federal government this week signed a deal with the US to access their oil reserves should global supplies be disrupted and we eat into our meagre reserve. Oil security is a hot topic in Australia – ... <a title="Taking US oil in a global crisis sounds good on paper, but it won’t do much for Australia’s energy security" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/taking-us-oil-in-a-global-crisis-sounds-good-on-paper-but-it-wont-do-much-for-australias-energy-security-133344/" aria-label="Read more about Taking US oil in a global crisis sounds good on paper, but it won’t do much for Australia’s energy security">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Wilson, Associate Professor in Education, University of Sydney The World Health Organisation overnight declared that the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19 is now a pandemic, and called on countries to take “urgent and aggressive action”. The virus has affected more than 113,702 people and resulted into 4,012 ... <a title="Australian schools are closing because of coronavirus, but should they be?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/australian-schools-are-closing-because-of-coronavirus-but-should-they-be-133432/" aria-label="Read more about Australian schools are closing because of coronavirus, but should they be?">Read more</a>
