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August 20, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Samoa’s Director-General of Health says the country remains free of the covid-19 coronavirus so the public should not believe rumours to the contrary. Leausa Dr Take Naseri held his first covid press conference since March yesterday and spent the time highlighting the government’s work to prevent the virus from entering the country. ... <a title="Samoa health director calls on public to stop rumour-fed covid panic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/samoa-health-director-calls-on-public-to-stop-rumour-fed-covid-panic/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa health director calls on public to stop rumour-fed covid panic">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Larisa Labzin, Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland Could we have some immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, without ever having been exposed to it? Some new studies found people who were never symptomatic, exposed to, or tested positive for COVID-19 ... <a title="Exposure to common colds might give some people a head start in fighting COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/exposure-to-common-colds-might-give-some-people-a-head-start-in-fighting-covid-19-143455/" aria-label="Read more about Exposure to common colds might give some people a head start in fighting COVID-19">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
VIDEO: In this week’s A View from Afar with Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning, we discuss: What’s behind the United Arab Emirates/Israel deal? Lukashenko has lost respect among Belarusians. But will he lose power in the eastern European state? Trumpianism, is it even a word? Is it for export? And how is the Democrat National ... <a title="VIDEO: A View from Afar – UAE-Israel Deal + Belarus + Trumpianism Biden and the US Elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/video-a-view-from-afar-uae-israel-deal-belarus-trumpianism-biden-and-the-us-elections/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: A View from Afar – UAE-Israel Deal + Belarus + Trumpianism Biden and the US Elections">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The Department of Social Services has confirmed Australia’s pensioners will not receive an automatic indexation increase this September, because inflation has gone backwards. This will be the first time since 1997 the pension hasn’t risen with ... <a title="There will be no pension increase in September for the first time in 23 years. But there is a simple fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/there-will-be-no-pension-increase-in-september-for-the-first-time-in-23-years-but-there-is-a-simple-fix-144732/" aria-label="Read more about There will be no pension increase in September for the first time in 23 years. But there is a simple fix">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Adelaide Over 2,000 active cases of COVID-19 and 245 resident deaths as of August 19 have been linked to aged care homes in Victoria, spread across over 120 facilities. The St Basil’s cluster alone now involves 191 cases. In ... <a title="Poor ventilation may be adding to nursing homes’ COVID-19 risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/poor-ventilation-may-be-adding-to-nursing-homes-covid-19-risks-144725/" aria-label="Read more about Poor ventilation may be adding to nursing homes’ COVID-19 risks">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce I live in Auckland. Last night while driving home around 8pm I passed a small roadside car park with about 10 vehicles in it with people sleeping in them. I doubt they were holiday makers. A story on today’s RNZ news feed says there are now 29 registered food banks serving ... <a title="Bryan Bruce: Unemployment isn’t working – we need universal job creation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/bryan-bruce-unemployment-isnt-working-we-need-universal-job-creation/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Bruce: Unemployment isn’t working – we need universal job creation">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Oro Governor Gary Juffa has welcomed a joint investigations team, led by Papua New Guinea’s Office of Immigrations and Citizenship Authority, to the province, reports the PNG Post-Courier. The team, comprising police national fraud and anti-corruption directorate and Immigration officers, would visit several logging sites in the province to carry out ... <a title="Juffa welcomes inter agency probe with logging spot checks in Oro" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/juffa-welcomes-inter-agency-probe-with-logging-spot-checks-in-oro/" aria-label="Read more about Juffa welcomes inter agency probe with logging spot checks in Oro">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
By Ben Strang, RNZ News Reporter The New Zealand government is being urged to launch an inquiry into its response to the covid-19 pandemic as soon as the Auckland outbreak is under control. Public health experts say the government wasted the 100 days New Zealand was free of community transmission. They say any inquiry could ... <a title="NZ government urged to launch inquiry into pandemic response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/nz-government-urged-to-launch-inquiry-into-pandemic-response/" aria-label="Read more about NZ government urged to launch inquiry into pandemic response">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Border testing, quarantine facilities, alternative plans from NZ First, National, ACT Thomas Manch (Stuff): The Covid-19 border testing saga that’s going septic amid ministers’ muddled accounts Karl du Fresne: Incompetence is one thing, misinformation ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 20 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-20-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 20 2020">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shimona Kealy, Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University Prehistoric axes and beads found in caves on a remote Indonesian island suggest this was a crucial staging post for seafaring people who lived in this region as the last ice age was coming ... <a title="Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/stone-tools-from-a-remote-cave-reveal-how-island-hopping-humans-made-a-living-in-the-jungle-millennia-ago-144570/" aria-label="Read more about Stone tools from a remote cave reveal how island-hopping humans made a living in the jungle millennia ago">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristy Hess, Associate Professor (Communication), Deakin University After Australia’s two big local newspaper companies, Australian Community Media (ACM) and News Corporation, shut down scores of rural newspapers as part of their COVID-19 cost-saving strategies, there were heartwarming stories of retrenched journalists and volunteers stepping in to fill ... <a title="The government’s regional media bailout doesn’t go far enough — here are reforms we really need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/the-governments-regional-media-bailout-doesnt-go-far-enough-here-are-reforms-we-really-need-144666/" aria-label="Read more about The government’s regional media bailout doesn’t go far enough — here are reforms we really need">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Lockwood, Associate Professor Implementation Science, JBI, University of Adelaide Early COVID-19 images of swabbing from Wuhan, China, looked more like an Ebola news story — health-care workers fully encased in personal protective equipment (PPE), inserting swabs so deeply that brain injury seemed imminent. As COVID-19 (and ... <a title="Goodbye, brain scrapers. COVID-19 tests now use gentler nose swabs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/goodbye-brain-scrapers-covid-19-tests-now-use-gentler-nose-swabs-144416/" aria-label="Read more about Goodbye, brain scrapers. COVID-19 tests now use gentler nose swabs">Read more</a>
