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June 5, 2023
By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has received one of the top accolades in today’s King’s Birthday Honours. Ardern, who was prime minister from September 2017 until January this year, has been appointed a Dame Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. She received the ... <a title="King’s Birthday Honours: Former NZ leader Jacinda Ardern receives high accolade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/05/kings-birthday-honours-former-nz-leader-jacinda-ardern-receives-high-accolade/" aria-label="Read more about King’s Birthday Honours: Former NZ leader Jacinda Ardern receives high accolade">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Tokelau’s largest atoll, Nukunonu, is now out of lockdown after experiencing its first community cases of covid-19. In a statement, the government said Fakaofo Atoll has had two cases at the border and Nukunonu now has six positive community cases — all within the same household. This includes the ... <a title="Tokelau covid: Two new cases announced as lockdown ends" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/30/tokelau-covid-two-new-cases-announced-as-lockdown-ends/" aria-label="Read more about Tokelau covid: Two new cases announced as lockdown ends">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2023
RNZ News The World Health Organisation’s decision to remove covid-19 as a global health emergency is the right move, epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker says. The organisation said the virus was now an established and ongoing health issue that no longer constituted a public health emergency of international concern. Professor Baker said the global status change ... <a title="WHO covid-19 status changed but still NZ’s infectious ‘number one killer’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/08/who-covid-19-status-changed-but-still-nzs-infectious-number-one-killer/" aria-label="Read more about WHO covid-19 status changed but still NZ’s infectious ‘number one killer’">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
RNZ News Epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker says Aotearoa New Zealand is experiencing its fourth wave of covid-19 infection and warns people to stay vigilant. He said it was not as intense as the previous waves but it was definite, with a gradual rise in the number of self-reported cases every day, as seen in RNZ’s ... <a title="‘Mask up’ – warns epidemiologist over NZ’s rising fourth wave of covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/mask-up-warns-epidemiologist-over-nzs-rising-fourth-wave-of-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Mask up’ – warns epidemiologist over NZ’s rising fourth wave of covid-19">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Over Easter I relistened to Jim Mora’s RNZ interview (17 May 2020) of Johan Giesecke, “world leading epidemiologist” and Professor Emeritus at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. In the period April to June 2020, Sweden gained notoriety for its divergent public health policies with respect to the management of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Sweden and Covid19: Three Years after the World’s Attention" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/13/keith-rankin-analysis-sweden-and-covid19-three-years-after-the-worlds-attention/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Sweden and Covid19: Three Years after the World’s Attention">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. A pandemic can end in three ways. Either the death rates attributed to the pandemic disease cease, or at least drop back to pre-pandemic levels. Or normality is re-established, with the pandemic disease still present, but displacing other causes of death. Or a ‘new normal’ is established, with higher ongoing ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Post-Pandemic: Back to Normal?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/03/keith-rankin-analysis-covid19-post-pandemic-back-to-normal/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Post-Pandemic: Back to Normal?">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The ‘Young Elderly’ are in essence the post-war baby-boomers. An average young elderly person in these charts was born around 1950 to 1952. The charts look at ‘quarterly excess deaths’, so do not show week-by-week fluctuations in deaths. For example, data for the very end of 2022 covers the whole ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – The Pandemic: Young Elderly Deaths in Europe, USA and New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-the-pandemic-young-elderly-deaths-in-europe-usa-and-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – The Pandemic: Young Elderly Deaths in Europe, USA and New Zealand">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Germany’s Deadliest Weeks since World War Two? – Spiralling Deaths in Germany The four weeks ending 8 January 2023 have seen easily the most deaths in Germany of any four‑week period since 2015. The worst week was the week ending Christmas Day, with 28,481 deaths. While it’s hard to compare with pre-1990 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Germany’s Deadliest Weeks since World War Two?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/14/keith-rankin-analysis-germanys-deadliest-weeks-since-world-war-two/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Germany’s Deadliest Weeks since World War Two?">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The chart above is quite alarming, and not only because of Germany’s high death toll. It’s the difference between reported Covid19 deaths and excess deaths, in the context where four waves of excess deaths in Germany in 2022 are clearly ‘epidemic’ in nature. And we see the same death waves in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Death Spikes and Covid Dissonance? Examples of Germany and Denmark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/12/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-death-spikes-and-covid-dissonance-examples-of-germany-and-denmark/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Death Spikes and Covid Dissonance? Examples of Germany and Denmark">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2023
RNZ News Travellers from China to Australia will be required to have a negative pre-departure covid-19 test from January 5 — and New Zealand says it is now assessing the health risks. China has seen skyrocketing covid case numbers, and a range of other countries including the United Kingdom, the United States and France have ... <a title="Covid-19: NZ ‘assessing health risk’ after Australia announces China traveller testing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/02/covid-19-nz-assessing-health-risk-after-australia-announces-china-traveller-testing/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19: NZ ‘assessing health risk’ after Australia announces China traveller testing">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2022
RNZ News Thousands of people will be cancelling their Christmas Day plans thanks to the invisible grinch, covid-19. Leading epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker estimates 85,000 people will be in isolation by then. He says gathering outdoors or in well-ventilated spaces is key to limiting the Christmas spread of covid — and testing beforehand. “No-one will ... <a title="Thousands to miss Christmas thanks to covid-19 – how to avoid making it worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/24/thousands-to-miss-christmas-thanks-to-covid-19-how-to-avoid-making-it-worse/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands to miss Christmas thanks to covid-19 – how to avoid making it worse">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
RNZ News The parents of a New Zealand baby at the centre of a legal dispute that has made global headlines will not be appealing against a judge’s decision to hand guardianship of the child to the High Court. The four-month-old — known only as Baby W — requires urgent open heart surgery, with both ... <a title="No appeal against ruling in NZ baby blood case, surgery to go ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/no-appeal-against-ruling-in-nz-baby-blood-case-surgery-to-go-ahead/" aria-label="Read more about No appeal against ruling in NZ baby blood case, surgery to go ahead">Read more</a>
