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February 3, 2022
RNZ News New Zealanders in Australia will be able to return home by the end of the month under a five-stage reopening plan announced by the government today. The first stages of the plan would see returning vaccinated New Zealanders able to go into self-isolation and taking a test on arrival, rather than going into ... <a title="Covid-19: Border to reopen for New Zealanders end of February" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/03/covid-19-border-to-reopen-for-new-zealanders-end-of-february/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19: Border to reopen for New Zealanders end of February">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2021
RNZ News New Zealand’s most restrictive border controls will be eased early next year, the government announced today. Most fully-vaccinated travellers into New Zealand would not be required to go through managed isolation from early next year, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said. A seven-day self-isolation requirement will take the place of MIQ. Hipkins revealed fully-vaccinated ... <a title="NZ to ease toughest border controls next year – traffic light law passed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/25/nz-to-ease-toughest-border-controls-next-year-traffic-light-law-passed/" aria-label="Read more about NZ to ease toughest border controls next year – traffic light law passed">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2021
RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea and neighbouring Indonesia have been discussing a potential reopening of their shared border. The border was officially closed early last year due to the covid-19 pandemic, but the illegal movement of people back and forth has continued across the porous international boundary. PNG Prime Minister James Marape met with Indonesia’s ... <a title="Indonesia, PNG hold talks over possible reopening of border" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/06/indonesia-png-hold-talks-over-possible-reopening-of-border/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia, PNG hold talks over possible reopening of border">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2021
RNZ Pacific A covid-19 positive patient is being flown to New Zealand from Fiji today despite an earlier decision by the Ministry of Health to decline the transfer. The infected patient from Fiji is being flown to Auckland for hospital treatment. It is reported the person involved is a high-profile staff member employed by the ... <a title="Fiji covid-19 patient being flown to NZ for treatment in about-turn" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/29/fiji-covid-19-patient-being-flown-to-nz-for-treatment-in-about-turn/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji covid-19 patient being flown to NZ for treatment in about-turn">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Fiji Health Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Dr James Fong says the breach at the quarantine facility in Nadi was an incident waiting to happen. He was reported saying this by Fiji Village News as reports of random announcements of new cases were being made with journalists citing 10 active cases in Fiji. ... <a title="Fiji breach at quarantine ‘an incident waiting to happen’ as new cases cited" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/20/fiji-breach-at-quarantine-an-incident-waiting-to-happen-as-new-cases-cited/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji breach at quarantine ‘an incident waiting to happen’ as new cases cited">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2021
By Praneeta Prakash in Suva Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says a breach in protocol in relation to the 53-year-old woman now testing positive of covid-19 should not have happened. The woman who was working as a maid in a border quarantine facility developed symptoms last Thursday, but continued working and failed to notify authorities. ... <a title="Bainimarama blames ‘protocol breach’ for second Fiji community covid case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/19/bainimarama-blames-protocol-breach-for-second-fiji-community-covid-case/" aria-label="Read more about Bainimarama blames ‘protocol breach’ for second Fiji community covid case">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2021
By RNZ News The New Zealand government should impose a week-long home quarantine for returnees after they have left managed isolation facilities to reduce the risk of community spread, epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker says. Three positive cases, a Northland woman and a father and daughter in Auckland, were detected this week after they had left ... <a title="‘Impose stricter quarantine measures’, epidemiologist tells NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/29/impose-stricter-quarantine-measures-epidemiologist-tells-nz/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Impose stricter quarantine measures’, epidemiologist tells NZ">Read more</a>
