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January 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lyn Gilbert, Honorary Professor Faculty of Health and Medical Science, Univeristy of Sydney; Senior Researcher Sydney Institue for Infectious Disease, University of Sydney., University of Sydney Shutterstock Australia’s aged care homes are being devastated by the current wave of COVID infections, with more than 1,100 outbreaks affecting ... <a title="1,100 Australian aged care homes are locked down due to COVID. What have we learnt from deaths in care?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/24/1-100-australian-aged-care-homes-are-locked-down-due-to-covid-what-have-we-learnt-from-deaths-in-care-175141/" aria-label="Read more about 1,100 Australian aged care homes are locked down due to COVID. What have we learnt from deaths in care?">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Cunneen, Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University Shutterstock The enormous eruption of the underwater volcano in Tonga, Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, triggered a tsunami that reached countries all around the Pacific rim, even causing a disastrous oil spill along 21 beaches in Peru. In Tonga, waves about 2 ... <a title="5 ways climate change boosts tsunami threat, from collapsing ice shelves to sea level rise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/24/5-ways-climate-change-boosts-tsunami-threat-from-collapsing-ice-shelves-to-sea-level-rise-175247/" aria-label="Read more about 5 ways climate change boosts tsunami threat, from collapsing ice shelves to sea level rise">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ema Moolchand, PhD Candidate, RMIT University Australian Day barbecues are under threat as Omicron infections continue to cripple meat-processing operations. Most off the menu are chicken dishes. Australia’s biggest poultry processor Ingham’s (with a 40% market share) has had to stop producing some items and curtail production ... <a title="Where’s the meat? Employers and governments should have seen this supply crisis coming, and done something" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/24/wheres-the-meat-employers-and-governments-should-have-seen-this-supply-crisis-coming-and-done-something-175144/" aria-label="Read more about Where’s the meat? Employers and governments should have seen this supply crisis coming, and done something">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2022
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A global aid effort is underway for Tonga with vessels en route to the Pacific kingdom from Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan and the US as well as New Zealand. NZ Defence Force Maritime Component Commander Commodore Garin Golding told RNZ Pacific nearby Fiji was also assisting in the ... <a title="Global aid effort underway for Tonga’s recovery from the Hunga tsunami" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/23/global-aid-effort-underway-for-tongas-recovery-from-the-hunga-tsunami/" aria-label="Read more about Global aid effort underway for Tonga’s recovery from the Hunga tsunami">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2022
By Robert Iroga in Honiara Tulagi in the Central Islands province of Solomon islands is the first provincial capital to ban the sale of betel nut — for an indefinite period — as a measure to help control any potential spread of covid-19. Premier Stanley Manetiva told SBM Online that the measure became effective yesterday ... <a title="Tulagi bans betel nut selling as covid fears grow in Solomon Islands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/23/tulagi-bans-betel-nut-selling-as-covid-fears-grow-in-solomon-islands/" aria-label="Read more about Tulagi bans betel nut selling as covid fears grow in Solomon Islands">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2022
RNZ Pacific The second day of a drive to receive emergency supplies in Aotearoa New Zealand to be sent to Tonga has started in Auckland this morning. Hundreds queued for hours at Mount Smart Stadium in Penrose yesterday to deliver emergency goods that will be sent to their families in Tonga. Almost six shipping containers ... <a title="Second day of NZ’s Tonga tsunami emergency fundraiser today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/23/second-day-of-nzs-tonga-tsunami-emergency-fundraiser-today/" aria-label="Read more about Second day of NZ’s Tonga tsunami emergency fundraiser today">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2022
By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporting journalist A New Zealand iwi development and social services leader in Taihape is urging rural people to prepare urgently for self-isolation or infection as the threat of omicron looms. Mōkai Pātea Services general manager Tracey Hiroa, who is also a Rangitīkei District councillor, says country people think of themselves ... <a title="Rangitīkei Māori leader urges rural NZ people to prepare now for omicron" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/22/rangitikei-maori-leader-urges-rural-nz-people-to-prepare-now-for-omicron/" aria-label="Read more about Rangitīkei Māori leader urges rural NZ people to prepare now for omicron">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2022
Kaniva News King Tupou VI has offered sympathy and prayers to all those who lost relatives in last weekend’s Tongan volcano eruption and tsunami disaster or are still waiting for news about their families. He said the whole of Tonga was devastated by the tsunami and it wiped out some of the islands, homes, plantations ... <a title="Tonga’s King Tupou VI offers hope to families who lost relatives in deadly tsunami" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/21/tongas-king-tupou-vi-offers-hope-to-families-who-lost-relatives-in-deadly-tsunami/" aria-label="Read more about Tonga’s King Tupou VI offers hope to families who lost relatives in deadly tsunami">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2022
RNZ News Specialist New Zealand Defence Force staff will be checking Tonga’s shipping lanes are passable and the wharf is safe so desperately needed humanitarian supplies can get through. Three deaths have been confirmed after Saturday’s massive volcanic eruption. There are reports of significant injuries, but no details yet. UN officials said 84,000 people – ... <a title="Safety at Tonga port being checked for arrival of more humanitarian supplies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/21/safety-at-tonga-port-being-checked-for-arrival-of-more-humanitarian-supplies/" aria-label="Read more about Safety at Tonga port being checked for arrival of more humanitarian supplies">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Schubert, Pharmacist and PhD Candidate, University of Sydney On Thursday, health minister Greg Hunt announced Australia’s drug regulator had provisionally approved two new medicines for the treatment of COVID. These are Lagevrio, made by American pharmaceutical company Merck Sharpe & Dohme, and Paxlovid, by Pfizer. With ... <a title="Australia approves two new medicines in the fight against COVID. How can you get them and are they effective against Omicron?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/21/australia-approves-two-new-medicines-in-the-fight-against-covid-how-can-you-get-them-and-are-they-effective-against-omicron-175321/" aria-label="Read more about Australia approves two new medicines in the fight against COVID. How can you get them and are they effective against Omicron?">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Maguire-Rosier, Honorary Associate, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Literature, Art, and Media, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney Yaya Stempler Review: Yung Lung, choreographed by Antony Hamilton, Chunky Move The word “yung”, according to the urban language dictionary, variously means ... <a title="When humans compete with television, Yung Lung proves the liveness of bodies wins out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/21/when-humans-compete-with-television-yung-lung-proves-the-liveness-of-bodies-wins-out-173986/" aria-label="Read more about When humans compete with television, Yung Lung proves the liveness of bodies wins out">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edmund Wedam Kanmiki, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland Shutterstock School holidays can be a special time for extended families to gather. Children may see their grandparents at seasonal gatherings or as part of childcare arrangements to help working parents. New research suggests the biology, environment and ... <a title="Kids whose grandparents are overweight are almost twice as likely to struggle with obesity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/21/kids-whose-grandparents-are-overweight-are-almost-twice-as-likely-to-struggle-with-obesity-173739/" aria-label="Read more about Kids whose grandparents are overweight are almost twice as likely to struggle with obesity">Read more</a>
