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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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July 28, 2021
By Josefa Babitu in Suva The dream of putting a smile on his mother’s face on his graduation day from university has become one that will never happen for Gabriel Gade, after his mother succumbed to the coronavirus that has killed dozens of people in Fiji. “My ultimate dream was to make her proud of ... <a title="Fiji student son tells of his pregnant nurse mum’s losing struggle with covid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/28/fiji-student-son-tells-of-his-pregnant-nurse-mums-losing-struggle-with-covid/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji student son tells of his pregnant nurse mum’s losing struggle with covid">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. A consensus is emerging that the Government has generally managed the Covid crisis very well over the last 18 months, but they have dropped the ball when it comes to the crucial vaccine rollout. This was nicely encapsulated in opinion polling last week showing that while 69 per cent of the ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: “Year of the vaccine” at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/26/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-year-of-the-vaccine-at-risk/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: “Year of the vaccine” at risk">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2021
By Timoci Vula in Suva Two Fijian pregnant women are among the 21 covid-19 deaths reported within a seven-day period from July 14. Their babies, however, were saved via a caesarean operation by the obstetric team. Health Secretary Dr James Fong revealed this in his covid-19 live update last evening as he announced the country’s ... <a title="Fiji medics save newborn babies – mothers among 21 new covid deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/23/fiji-medics-save-newborn-babies-mothers-among-21-new-covid-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji medics save newborn babies – mothers among 21 new covid deaths">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Finland and Greece are in the East of Europe, but generally thought of as western countries, having not been behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ during the Cold War. They can be seen as a benchmark to help understand the other Eastern European countries. And, like other eastern countries, they had low levels ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: East Europe in the European Union, Excess Deaths in Context" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/23/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-east-europe-in-the-european-union-excess-deaths-in-context/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: East Europe in the European Union, Excess Deaths in Context">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
COMMENT: By Professor Biman Prasad Pictures and videos emerging about the shocking and deplorable conditions for covid-isolated patients in Fiji hospitals are no surprise. Nor should they be. They are a direct consequence of the Bainimarama government’s failure to lead, failure to plan – and worst of all, failure to care. Two months ago Ministry ... <a title="Fiji’s covid horror is too late to fix, yet still our leaders stay silent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/fijis-covid-horror-is-too-late-to-fix-yet-still-our-leaders-stay-silent/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s covid horror is too late to fix, yet still our leaders stay silent">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A pro-independence movement in West Papua has appealed to several Western countries — including New Zealand — to provide urgent humanitarian help by supplying covid vaccines directly to the Papuans to cope with the “double crisis” in the Indonesian-ruled region. Benny Wenda, interim president of the Provisional Government of West Papua, ... <a title="Wenda appeals to NZ, West to supply covid vaccines direct to Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/wenda-appeals-to-nz-west-to-supply-covid-vaccines-direct-to-papuans/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda appeals to NZ, West to supply covid vaccines direct to Papuans">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
RNZ Pacific Fiji has recorded 784 cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours to 8am on Monday. That compares to 1043 cases in the previous 24-hour period. Among these were the first five cases recorded in the country’s eastern division, three from Ovalau and two from Gau. The Health Ministry also confirmed 15 deaths ... <a title="784 new covid cases in Fiji as rising death toll passes 100" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/784-new-covid-cases-in-fiji-as-rising-death-toll-passes-100/" aria-label="Read more about 784 new covid cases in Fiji as rising death toll passes 100">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
RNZ Pacific Fiji has recorded a daily record 1405 new cases of covid-19 in the 24 hours to 8am on Friday. That compares to 1220 cases and 10 deaths in the previous 24-hour period. The government also confirmed six more deaths last night, taking the death toll to 80 – 78 of these from the ... <a title="Covid-19 infections and deaths soar in Fiji – total now 80" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/covid-19-infections-and-deaths-soar-in-fiji-total-now-80/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 infections and deaths soar in Fiji – total now 80">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
By Josefa Babitu in Suva If it was not for his friend who broke into his home after he was gasping for air, Antonio Ratuvili would be among dozens of Fijians who have died from covid-19 this year. Ratuvili was “grey-faced spectra, gasping for every breath, and in a thoroughly confused state” on his deathbed ... <a title="How Fiji’s Antonio escaped death from ‘normal flu’ that was actually covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/how-fijis-antonio-escaped-death-from-normal-flu-that-was-actually-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about How Fiji’s Antonio escaped death from ‘normal flu’ that was actually covid-19">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2021
RNZ Pacific Fiji health authorities have reported an additional 10 deaths from covid-19 over the past week. In his daily statement on covid-19 cases, Health Secretary Dr James Fong said there were 634 new cases for the 24 hour period ending at 8am yesterday. All of the dead were aged from 42 to 90 and ... <a title="Fiji reports 10 more covid deaths – Flying Fijians to wear vax slogan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/15/fiji-reports-10-more-covid-deaths-flying-fijians-to-wear-vax-slogan/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji reports 10 more covid deaths – Flying Fijians to wear vax slogan">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Dicky Budiman, Griffith University Indonesia is currently experiencing a massive spike in covid-19 infection and deaths, as experts (including myself) have unfortunately been predicting. The country recorded its largest single-day increase in new cases on July 13, with more than 47,000 infections. And this is likely to be a huge undercount because too ... <a title="Indonesia records highest increase in covid cases – numbers likely to rise again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/15/indonesia-records-highest-increase-in-covid-cases-numbers-likely-to-rise-again/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia records highest increase in covid cases – numbers likely to rise again">Read more</a>
