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April 2, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand has had its biggest increase in one day as the Health Ministry confirms 89 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number of cases to 797. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said today 92 people had now recovered from the coronavirus. Thirteen people are in hospital, two are in ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 8: Biggest increase with 89 new cases, 92 people recovered" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/02/nz-lockdown-day-8-biggest-increase-with-89-new-cases-92-people-recovered/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 8: Biggest increase with 89 new cases, 92 people recovered">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2020
PACIFIC UPDATE: By Barbara Dreaver of TVNZ There are now 147 positive cases across seven countries in the Pacific region and four deaths. In Guam, cases continue to grow, with the count now at 77, five of them health workers. The island nation is facing its own crisis on land, with issues brewing at its ... <a title="Pacific Update: 147 new coronavirus cases confirmed across the region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/02/pacific-update-147-new-coronavirus-cases-confirmed-across-the-region/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Update: 147 new coronavirus cases confirmed across the region">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested nine alleged illegal border crossers and quarantined them in Vanimo, reports RNZ Pacific. The arrests came as East Sepik Governor Allan Bird called for “shoot to kill’ orders for illegal border crossers and a military control of areas along the border between Papua New Guinea ... <a title="PNG arrests 9 border crossers while governor calls for ‘shoot to kill’ order" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/02/png-arrests-9-border-crossers-while-governor-calls-for-shoot-to-kill-order/" aria-label="Read more about PNG arrests 9 border crossers while governor calls for ‘shoot to kill’ order">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2020
By RNZ News The publisher of some of New Zealand’s best known magazines has folded amid the economic fallout from the national coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Bauer Media, which publishes The Listener, Woman’s Day, New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, Metro, North and South and Next, says it is no longer viable and has shut its doors today. ... <a title="NZ virus lockdown forces magazine publisher Bauer Media to close" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/02/nz-virus-lockdown-forces-magazine-publisher-bauer-media-to-close/" aria-label="Read more about NZ virus lockdown forces magazine publisher Bauer Media to close">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Launched by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), “Tracker 19” is a tool made for an unprecedented global crisis. So named in reference not only to Covid-19 but also article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, this project aims to evaluate the pandemic’s impacts on global journalism. It will document state censorship ... <a title="RSF launches coronavirus pandemic media freedom tracker" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/02/rsf-launches-coronavirus-pandemic-media-freedom-tracker/" aria-label="Read more about RSF launches coronavirus pandemic media freedom tracker">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealanders in their 20s are the age group with the biggest numbers of Covid-19 and are “the vector for transmission”, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Ardern has thanked NZ for its efforts, but says it is still too early to say if the level four lockdown is successfully slowing transmission. Ardern ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 7: People in their 20s are ‘the ones passing it on’ – PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/nz-lockdown-day-7-people-in-their-20s-are-the-ones-passing-it-on-pm/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 7: People in their 20s are ‘the ones passing it on’ – PM">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin I was concerned to read last night that Greta Thunberg and her father almost certainly have Covid19; however, because of very restrictive testing criteria used in Sweden, they have not been tested. And I heard yesterday, on a Radio New Zealand news bulletin, a story about how there are virtually no ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Exponential Growth in Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-exponential-growth-in-italy-sweden-and-the-united-kingdom/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Exponential Growth in Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Arindam Basu of the University of Canterbury The number of New Zealanders testing positive for Covid-19 will continue to rise despite the strict conditions of the four-week lockdown that began last week. As of today, there are 647 cases in New Zealand, up from 39 recorded just over a week ago, and just over ... <a title="Why NZ’s coronavirus cases will rise for weeks – even in level 4 lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/01/why-nzs-coronavirus-cases-will-rise-for-weeks-even-in-level-4-lockdown/" aria-label="Read more about Why NZ’s coronavirus cases will rise for weeks – even in level 4 lockdown">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has eased restrictions on the media industry in New Zealand during the four-week lockdown, saying it was not exempt from the financial hardship caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. She said community newspapers will now be able to be printed for hard to reach communities. The government is ... <a title="NZ lockdown – Day 6: Emergency extended by 7 days – PM on media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/nz-lockdown-day-6-emergency-extended-by-7-days-pm-on-media/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – Day 6: Emergency extended by 7 days – PM on media">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin While, United States’ local data on Covid19 is more readily available than for other countries, the American ‘county’ system of local governance is way out of date and often does not well represent urban conglomerations. Doing my best from the available data, I constructed the following chart yesterday evening, and will ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United States’ Deaths as at 29 March 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-united-states-deaths-as-at-29-march-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United States’ Deaths as at 29 March 2020">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By COHA’s Editorial Board From Washington DC The defense of human life in the Americas, in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic, has become an ethical imperative for progressive forces throughout the region and beyond. The manner in which each government is now responding to the crisis ... <a title="COVID-19 Pandemic Spotlights Ethical Dimension of Hemispheric Affairs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/covid-19-pandemic-spotlights-ethical-dimension-of-hemispheric-affairs/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 Pandemic Spotlights Ethical Dimension of Hemispheric Affairs">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi Pacific governments across the region have put side their differences with media and are working alongside them in these difficult times, say New Zealand journalists covering Moana. Most journalists who cover the Pacific come Pasifika backgrounds and have been pleasantly surprised by the change in attitude of governments. “The Pacific is infamous ... <a title="Pacific governments ‘working better’ with creative media in pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/pacific-governments-working-better-with-creative-media-in-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific governments ‘working better’ with creative media in pandemic">Read more</a>
