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April 16, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling freeze on funding for the World Health Organisation at a time when many countries are pulling together for a global response to the coronavirus pandemic has surely earned him the ... <a title="How the ‘chief covidiot’ has blocked world health unity with WHO freeze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/how-the-chief-covidiot-has-blocked-world-health-unity-with-who-freeze/" aria-label="Read more about How the ‘chief covidiot’ has blocked world health unity with WHO freeze">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
By Koroi Tadulala in Suva Fiji’s Ministry of Health mobile fever clinic teams operating in the greater Suva area have screened 121,304 Fijians so far. The ministry is aiming to screen 150,000 people by tomorrow. The ministry said the mobile fever clinics had been a success in identifying early symptoms and preventing the spread of ... <a title="Fiji fever clinics screen more than 120,000 people in Suva ‘success’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/fiji-fever-clinics-screen-more-than-120000-people-in-suva-success/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji fever clinics screen more than 120,000 people in Suva ‘success’">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch The thin veneer of a seemingly robust New Zealand media was ripped off like a plaster on a scab in front of Parliament’s Epidemic Response Committee today exposing its frailties. The heads of all New Zealand’s media companies appeared via Zoom and all spoke of the ... <a title="NZ media chiefs warn desperate times ahead faced with advertising nadir" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/nz-media-chiefs-warn-desperate-times-ahead-faced-with-advertising-nadir/" aria-label="Read more about NZ media chiefs warn desperate times ahead faced with advertising nadir">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Today’s first chart looks at three Nordic countries: Iceland, Norway and Sweden. These give us a basis for analysis of underreporting of Covid19, in the main due to limited testing. Yesterday, Norway was shown as a high incidence ‘recovering country’, even though it was less recovering than South Korea. Iceland, however, ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Nordic Comparisons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-covid19-nordic-comparisons/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Nordic Comparisons">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, government ministers and public service chief executives will take a 20 percent pay cut for the next six months. She said it acknowledged New Zealanders who were on wage subsidies, taking pay cuts, or losing their jobs due to the Covid-19 coronavirus. “We feel acutely the ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 21: 20% pay cut for PM, ministers and civil service bosses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/nz-lockdown-day-21-20-pay-cut-for-pm-ministers-and-civil-service-bosses/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 21: 20% pay cut for PM, ministers and civil service bosses">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw of Massey University New Zealand’s general election is currently set for September 19. Under ordinary circumstances, campaigning for the election and two referenda that will take place alongside would be heating up by now, but the country is three quarters of the way through a comprehensive level 4 four-week lockdown. ... <a title="Trust in government is high in NZ, but will it last until this year’s elections?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/trust-in-government-is-high-in-nz-but-will-it-last-until-this-years-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Trust in government is high in NZ, but will it last until this year’s elections?">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Desperate times call for desperate measures and so it is with journalism schools throughout the Pacific with each of them trying new and innovative methods in the age of Covid-19 coronavirus. Faced with the global pandemic, they are following an overarching dictum, safety of students first ... <a title="Desperate times unleash digital creativity, flexibility for j-schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/desperate-times-unleash-digital-creativity-flexibility-for-j-schools/" aria-label="Read more about Desperate times unleash digital creativity, flexibility for j-schools">Read more</a>
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April 15, 2020
By John Gerritsen, education correspondent of RNZ News The second term of New Zealand’s school year starts today, but nobody is going to class. Schools are in lockdown along with the rest of the country and more than 800,000 teachers and students are now starting two weeks of remote learning. The curriculum leader for Year ... <a title="Term of digital distance learning begins for NZ teachers and pupils" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/15/term-of-digital-distance-learning-begins-for-nz-teachers-and-pupils/" aria-label="Read more about Term of digital distance learning begins for NZ teachers and pupils">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2020
By RNZ News Four more people have died from Covid-19 in New Zealand in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry has confirmed. Nine people have now died in the country from the coronavirus, with six of them being residents of the Rosewood Rest Home in Christchurch. It is the highest number of Covid-19 deaths ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 20: Four more Covid-19 deaths, 17 new cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/14/nz-lockdown-day-20-four-more-covid-19-deaths-17-new-cases/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 20: Four more Covid-19 deaths, 17 new cases">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2020
Today’s chart looks at four countries recovering from Covid19: South Korea, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. Except for us (NZ), the other countries started early and are on the ‘finishing straight’ or thereabouts. Note that this chart uses a smoothing technique; seven-day rolling averages. Thus, for each day shown, the data value represents the average ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Recovering from Covid19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/14/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-recovering-from-covid19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Recovering from Covid19">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Tobias R. Keller and Rosalie Gillett of the Queensland University of Technology Even before the coronavirus arrived to turn life upside down and trigger a global infodemic, social media platforms were under growing pressure to curb the spread of misinformation. Last year, Facebook cofounder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg called for new rules ... <a title="Why is it so hard to stop the Covid-19 misinformation social media spread?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/14/why-is-it-so-hard-to-stop-the-covid-19-misinformation-social-media-spread/" aria-label="Read more about Why is it so hard to stop the Covid-19 misinformation social media spread?">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2020
By Maggie Boyle in Suva Fiji’s Health Minister Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete says that with mobile health clinics “hitting the ground” in Suva, the aim is to assess at least 100,000 Fijians that reside within the lockdown area. It was a comprehensive approach that was in addition to several other measures the ministry is taking in ... <a title="Fiji steps up testing in Suva lockdown area, says Health Minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/14/fiji-steps-up-testing-in-suva-lockdown-area-says-health-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji steps up testing in Suva lockdown area, says Health Minister">Read more</a>
