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October 23, 2021
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s biggest referral hospital has reached a crisis point as the covid-19 pandemic positivity rate surged drastically to 85 percent yesterday. Port Moresby General Hospital chief executive officer Dr Paki Molumi in the National Capital District (NCD) has revealed that three children with covid-19 had died three ... <a title="PNG’s capital Port Moresby reaches crisis point over covid surge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/23/pngs-capital-port-moresby-reaches-crisis-point-over-covid-surge/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s capital Port Moresby reaches crisis point over covid surge">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2021
Episode 1 one of the Let’s Talanoa series – “Know Your Vax”. Asia Pacific Report newsdesk New Zealand reported a record 129 new community cases of covid-19 today — the day after reaching triple digit figures for the first time. Nine of today’s new cases are in Waikato, with the rest in Auckland. Auckland remains ... <a title="129 new covid cases in NZ community – Pacific talanoa series provides info" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/23/129-new-covid-cases-in-nz-community-pacific-talanoa-series-provides-info/" aria-label="Read more about 129 new covid cases in NZ community – Pacific talanoa series provides info">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
The New Zealand government has announced details of its Covid-19 Protection Framework, involving the roll-out of a “traffic-light” system once all district health boards hit 90 percent full vaccination rates. A vaccine certificate will be central to the new framework. The system will involve three settings – green, orange and red. “If you want to ... <a title="NZ government unveals its ‘traffic light’ covid-19 protection framework" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/nz-government-unveals-its-traffic-light-covid-19-protection-framework/" aria-label="Read more about NZ government unveals its ‘traffic light’ covid-19 protection framework">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
By Gill Bonnett, RNZ News immigration reporter Pacific leaders say offering “visas for vaccinations’ would be the ultimate incentive for New Zealand overstayers to get the covid-19 jab, as Auckland struggles to stop delta variant infections spreading through the community. It comes as epidemiologists say the government needs to pull out all the stops to ... <a title="Vax for visas: ‘Overstayers would come out of woodwork’, say Pacific leaders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/vax-for-visas-overstayers-would-come-out-of-woodwork-say-pacific-leaders/" aria-label="Read more about Vax for visas: ‘Overstayers would come out of woodwork’, say Pacific leaders">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2021
RNZ Pacific A Pacific public health expert says a premature transition of covid-19 restrictions in New Zealand could be lethal for Māori and Pasifika communities. The government is under increasing pressure to ease restrictions in Auckland with National saying it would set a six-week deadline for ending lockdowns and that a target of 85-90 percent ... <a title="Early easing of covid restrictions ‘could be lethal for Māori/Pasifika’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/22/early-easing-of-covid-restrictions-could-be-lethal-for-maori-pasifika/" aria-label="Read more about Early easing of covid restrictions ‘could be lethal for Māori/Pasifika’">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. A commentary from Melbourne – Megan Gold, Melbourne embraced zero-Covid, now isolated as world bounces back, NZ Herald 16 Oct, originally published in the UK Daily Telegraph – notes that “even high vaccine uptake may not protect the most vulnerable from Covid; let alone the other illnesses that could ravage Australia ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Debt, Community Debt, and Immunity Debt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/21/keith-rankin-analysis-immunity-debt-a-case-of-community-debt/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Debt, Community Debt, and Immunity Debt">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2021
Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning analyse how supply-chain bottlenecks, a global economic reset, and post-pandemic security are about to trigger a new era in geo-economics. Wherever you are around the world, if you haven’t yet experienced the impact of supply-chain pressures, then you soon will.
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October 20, 2021
RNZ News New Zealand today reported a drop by a third in the number of new community cases of covid-19 to 60 after a record high yesterday. The Ministry of Health said 56 of today’s cases were in Auckland and four were in Waikato. Yesterday the ministry reported 94 new community cases — the highest ... <a title="NZ reports 60 new community covid cases – three positives ‘escape’ MIQ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/nz-reports-60-new-community-covid-cases-three-positives-escape-miq/" aria-label="Read more about NZ reports 60 new community covid cases – three positives ‘escape’ MIQ">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2021
RNZ Pacific A leading anti-independence politician in New Caledonia, Sonia Backes, has rejected calls for the referendum on independence from France to be postponed, saying it should be held as planned. Pro-independence politicians have asked Paris to postpone the vote — due on December 12 — until next year because of the impact of the ... <a title="Backes rejects delaying New Caledonia independence referendum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/backes-rejects-delaying-new-caledonia-independence-referendum/" aria-label="Read more about Backes rejects delaying New Caledonia independence referendum">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2021
A View from Afar – In this podcast, Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will analyse how supply-chain bottlenecks, a global economic reset, and post-pandemic security are about to trigger a new era in geo-economics.
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October 20, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These charts give an insight into the actual impact – and progression – of Covid19 in South and Central America. As for the previously posted charts showing Russia, and showing the Middle East, these countries are included because they report their overall mortality monthly rather than weekly. Brazil Brazil received more ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Impact: Excess deaths in Latin America" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/20/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-impact-excess-deaths-in-latin-america/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Impact: Excess deaths in Latin America">Read more</a>
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October 18, 2021
Podcast: RNZ Checkpoint “We hear a lot of anecdotal reports of that. Also, the rules were relaxed a bit in terms of more social gathering outdoors and outdoor gatherings on the face of it should be relatively low risk because there’s better ventilation, but of course, it does provide more opportunities for mixing and they ... <a title="Risk of ‘unequal outbreak’ hurting Māori, Pasifika, says top NZ epidemiologist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/18/risk-of-unequal-outbreak-hurting-maori-pasifika-says-top-nz-epidemiologist/" aria-label="Read more about Risk of ‘unequal outbreak’ hurting Māori, Pasifika, says top NZ epidemiologist">Read more</a>
