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December 21, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Public policy has a number of biases. One is that certain real or alleged emergencies require (or seem to require) an urgent policy intervention. The result is a consortium of elected politicians, bureaucrat officials, and expert technocrats get on board, and assume a drivers’ role in a society which would otherwise ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Visualising a Way out of the Pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/21/keith-rankin-analysis-visualising-a-way-out-of-the-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Visualising a Way out of the Pandemic">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2021
RNZ News The Waitangi Tribunal has released a scathing ruling of the New Zealand government’s covid-19 response and vaccine rollout, saying Māori were put at risk. The tribunal held an urgent hearing early this month, and released its findings today. The tribunal says cabinet’s decision to go against official advice and not prioritise Māori in ... <a title="Waitangi Tribunal rules NZ covid-19 response ‘put Māori at risk’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/21/waitangi-tribunal-rules-nz-covid-19-response-put-maori-at-risk/" aria-label="Read more about Waitangi Tribunal rules NZ covid-19 response ‘put Māori at risk’">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2021
RNZ Pacific Fiji’s Health Ministry is concerned that people are not taking the new omicron variant of the coronavirus seriously. Fiji reported two cases of the variant more than two weeks ago — both patients had arrived in the country from Nigeria on November 25. Health Secretary Dr James Fong said more than 70 countries ... <a title="Fijians urged to take omicron virus variant seriously amid global spread" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/21/fijians-urged-to-take-omicron-virus-variant-seriously-amid-global-spread/" aria-label="Read more about Fijians urged to take omicron virus variant seriously amid global spread">Read more</a>
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December 20, 2021
While the Omicron strain of Covid19 was first sequenced in South Africa, it was found independently in the Netherlands in November. So, while Netherlands was one of the European countries which caught the latest sudden European wave (mainly featuring Delta), most likely the Omicron strain was already spreading there; indeed the main constraint on the growth of Omicron in Netherlands was probably Delta.
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December 20, 2021
RNZ News New Zealand has reached a milestone of eight million vaccine doses administered. The milestone was featured in the Ministry of Health’s covid-19 update today. The figure includes first doses, second doses and boosters, as well as third doses intended for those who are immune compromised. The doses include both the Pfizer — the ... <a title="Eight million covid vaccine doses given in NZ – Māori rate still lagging" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/20/eight-million-covid-vaccine-doses-given-in-nz-maori-rate-still-lagging/" aria-label="Read more about Eight million covid vaccine doses given in NZ – Māori rate still lagging">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2021
By Yance Agapa in Jayapura The Papuan people have rejected the investigation team formed by the Indonesian state through the Attorney-General’s Office (AGO) to investigate alleged gross human rights violations in Paniai on 8 December 2014. “To this day Indonesia has never solved any cases of gross human rights violations in the land of Papua, ... <a title="Families of victims reject Jakarta 2014 Paniai massacre investigation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/19/families-of-victims-reject-jakarta-2014-paniai-massacre-investigation/" aria-label="Read more about Families of victims reject Jakarta 2014 Paniai massacre investigation">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2021
By Jake McKee, RNZ News reporter New Zealand’s longest covid-19 hospitalisation in Auckland and Northland during the first three months of the current outbreak was 61 days, and an overwhelming majority of patients were Māori or Pacific. Figures from the Northern Region Health Coordination Centre (NRHCC) released to RNZ News under the Official Information Act ... <a title="Majority of NZ delta covid outbreak hospital patients Māori and Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/19/majority-of-nz-delta-covid-outbreak-hospital-patients-maori-and-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Majority of NZ delta covid outbreak hospital patients Māori and Pacific">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Sweden Re Covid19, Sweden remains the enigma country that almost nobody wants to talk about, because the Swedish scientists may have been correct all along (although the Swedish bureaucrats certainly had significant shortcomings in the early months of the pandemic). The first chart shows five waves of covid in Sweden. The ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Scandinavia, Poland and Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-scandinavia-poland-and-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Scandinavia, Poland and Australia">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
RNZ News Aucklanders are travelling out of New Zealand’s largest city today as the border around Tāmaki Makaurau opens for the first time in 120 days. Police said traffic was flowing freely early this morning. Waka Kotahi and the police removed checkpoints to the north and south of the region since the midnight change in ... <a title="Auckland lockdown boundary lifts as thousands make exodus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/auckland-lockdown-boundary-lifts-as-thousands-make-exodus/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland lockdown boundary lifts as thousands make exodus">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. United States of America The first United States chart shows both recorded covid deaths and excess deaths. (For all countries more recent ‘recorded covid deaths’ data is available.) Generally we see a broad match between the two series in terms of timing, though for the first two United States covid waves ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United States and South Korea as the pandemic approaches two years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/15/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-united-states-and-south-korea-as-the-pandemic-approaches-two-years/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United States and South Korea as the pandemic approaches two years">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
RNZ News A New Zealand nurse has been referred to a professional conduct committee by the Nursing Council after posting threats online against medical professionals involved in the national covid-19 vaccine rollout. Multiple agencies are investigating after the registered Dunedin nurse posted a video to social media “declaring war” against covid-19 vaccinators and calling medical ... <a title="NZ nurse referred to Nursing Council over online threats to attack vax buses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/nz-nurse-referred-to-nursing-council-over-online-threats-to-attack-vax-buses/" aria-label="Read more about NZ nurse referred to Nursing Council over online threats to attack vax buses">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Marylou Mahe, a Kanak supporter of independence for New Caledonia When tomorrow’s referendum on independence for New Caledonia goes ahead, it won’t have my vote. I am a young Kanak woman, a pro-independence and decolonial feminist who wants to stop the injustice and humiliation of my people, colonised for more than a century ... <a title="I support Kanaky New Caledonian independence – but why I’m not voting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/12/i-support-kanaky-new-caledonian-independence-but-why-im-not-voting/" aria-label="Read more about I support Kanaky New Caledonian independence – but why I’m not voting">Read more</a>
