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April 13, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand’s Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield today confirmed the Health Ministry is “actively looking” at the rules around people visiting dying family members in the Ciovid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Dr Bloomfield confirmed this in a Q+A session on Facebook this afternoon to talk about masks, bubbles, testing and clusters. Earlier this ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 19: Health Ministry ‘looking at visit rules’ after fifth death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/13/nz-lockdown-day-19-health-ministry-looking-at-visit-rules-after-fifth-death/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 19: Health Ministry ‘looking at visit rules’ after fifth death">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2020
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS News Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner has called for the “urgent” and “immediate” release of immigration detainees in line with recommendations of peak medical bodies advising the federal government on their response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Commissioner Edward Santow in an exclusive interview with SBS News said they should be ... <a title="Human Rights Commissioner calls for release of detainees amid virus alarm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/13/human-rights-commissioner-calls-for-release-of-detainees-amid-virus-alarm/" aria-label="Read more about Human Rights Commissioner calls for release of detainees amid virus alarm">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. The lockdown breaches over the Easter weekend shows the number of self-entitled and selfish people flouting the rules in New Zealand and Fiji as reports have suggested. On self-isolation day 18 yesterday – ... <a title="Selfish lockdown breaches cause headaches in Fiji, NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/13/selfish-lockdown-breaches-cause-headaches-in-fiji-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Selfish lockdown breaches cause headaches in Fiji, NZ">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s Police Minister Bryan Kramer has published an extraordinary attack on two leading journalists over their reporting of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, accusing them of “misrepresenting” a financial update this week and suggesting they ought to be sacked. He claimed in an Easter weekend posting on his Kramer Report – ... <a title="Police Minister Kramer blasts two journalists in virus reporting row" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/12/police-minister-kramer-blasts-two-journalists-in-virus-reporting-row/" aria-label="Read more about Police Minister Kramer blasts two journalists in virus reporting row">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2020
By Ritika Pratap in Suva Fiji police have arrested 193 people in the last 24 hours for violations of the country’s coronavirus lockdown and the Police Commissioner, Brigadier-General Sitiveni Qiliho, says they are classic examples of the “selfish group”. Of the 193 arrests, 139 people were arrested for social gathering breaches, 53 arrested for curfew ... <a title="Fiji police make 193 virus lockdown violation arrests, blast ‘selfish group’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/12/fiji-police-make-193-virus-lockdown-violation-arrests-blast-selfish-group/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji police make 193 virus lockdown violation arrests, blast ‘selfish group’">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2020
By Antónia Gusmão in Dili Timor-Leste has registered its second case of Covid-19, the Integrated Crisis Management Centre (CIGC) has confirmed. The patient – a Timorese citizen, who crossed the border from Indonesia on April 1 – was isolated at their quarantine site when they developed symptoms of the virus, CIGC spokesman Sérgio Lobo said. ... <a title="Second coronavirus case in Timor-Leste – and first Timorese national" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/11/second-coronavirus-case-in-timor-leste-and-first-timorese-national/" aria-label="Read more about Second coronavirus case in Timor-Leste – and first Timorese national">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2020
By RNZ News A Christchurch woman in her 90s who was living in the Rosewood rest home is New Zealand’s second death from Covid-19, the Health Ministry has confirmed. Director of Public Health Caroline McElnay said today the “frail” woman could not have family around her in her last couple of days, because they were ... <a title="NZ lockdown – Day 16: Second death confirmed, cases rise on Good Friday" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/10/nz-lockdown-day-16-second-death-confirmed-cases-rise-on-good-friday/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – Day 16: Second death confirmed, cases rise on Good Friday">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2020
By Made Anthony Iswara in Jakarta The Covid-19 pandemic, which is spreading like wildfire in Indonesia, has taken not just lives but also the earnings of millions of workers, one month after the government announced Indonesia’s first two confirmed cases of the virus. Jumari, a 61-year-old who works in a shoe factory and lives in ... <a title="1.2m Indonesian workers laid off as coronavirus crushes economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/10/1-2m-indonesian-workers-laid-off-as-coronavirus-crushes-economy/" aria-label="Read more about 1.2m Indonesian workers laid off as coronavirus crushes economy">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Today’s chart shows the per capita level of testing performed in a number of countries. While the highest testing rate shown is Norway, we should note that Iceland has tested over eight percent of its population; too high to show on this chart. A high level of testing minimises a country’s ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Testing for Covid19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/09/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-testing-for-covid19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Testing for Covid19">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin What is Mercantilism? Mercantilism is the form of public policy that was dominant in Europe – especially Northern Europe – in the ‘early modern’ period; meaning in the period loosely between 1500 and 1800 (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries). In a political sense it represented a coalition of autocratic rule and big ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Northern European Mercantilism and the Covid‑19 Emergency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/09/keith-rankin-analysis-northern-european-mercantilism-and-the-covid-19-emergency/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Northern European Mercantilism and the Covid‑19 Emergency">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Georgie Bright, Australia associate director of Human Rights Watch Even before the coronavirus pandemic, the fragile health system in Papua New Guinea was underfunded and overwhelmed, with high rates of malaria, tuberculosis, and diabetes among its population of more than eight million. Access to hospitals is extremely limited, with 80 percent of the ... <a title="Why a full-on coronavirus outbreak would be catastrophic for PNG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/09/why-a-full-on-coronavirus-outbreak-would-be-catastrophic-for-png/" aria-label="Read more about Why a full-on coronavirus outbreak would be catastrophic for PNG">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2020
By Kelly Vacala in Suva Fiji disaster authorities have lifted movement restrictions imposed yesterday during the height of Severe Tropical Cyclone Harold have been lifted and both Queens and Kings highways are open. However, Covid-19 restrictions remain. Category 5 Harold is now heading for Tonga after leaving a trail of destruction in Vanuatu and Fiji. ... <a title="Fiji lifts movement restrictions in wake of TC Harold destruction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/09/fiji-lifts-movement-restrictions-in-wake-of-tc-harold-destruction/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji lifts movement restrictions in wake of TC Harold destruction">Read more</a>
