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March 27, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Australian cases have been on an exponent growth path since late February, with no remission yet in sight. The good news is that infection rates remain well below western European levels. The bad news is that death rates – hitherto very low – are accelerating. Indeed Victoria, running with a similar ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the World" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-australia-canada-new-zealand-the-world/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the World">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
Keith Rankin on Malthusian checks The 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic has all the visible hallmarks of a Malthusian pestilence, a necessary positive check visited upon an over‑abundant humanity. Indeed, that is a likely future interpretation of this event. It’s an important perspective which should be treated with both understanding and caution. I heard two academic examples ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay: Coronavirus – a Malthusian Event?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/keith-rankin-essay-coronavirus-a-malthusian-event/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay: Coronavirus – a Malthusian Event?">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
IN-DEPTH: By Kate Newton of RNZ News A week ago, Shaun Hendy packed up a desktop computer and monitor at his University of Auckland office and carted the whole lot home to his Grey Lynn bungalow in Auckland. When you’re leading the team that’s modelling the worst-case scenarios for how Covid-19 coronavirus might spread in ... <a title="NZ lockdown – Day 2: Modelling coronavirus from the kitchen table" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/nz-lockdown-day-2-modelling-coronavirus-from-the-kitchen-table/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – Day 2: Modelling coronavirus from the kitchen table">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
By Philip Cass Tonga will go into lockdown at 1am on Sunday morning, March 29. There will also be a night time curfew from 8pm to 6am. Prime Minister Pohiva Tu’i’onetoa said the lockdown was being ordered as a response to the World Health Organisation declaration that the Covid-19 coronavirus was a global pandemic and ... <a title="Pacific coronavirus: Lockdown, curfew, begin in Tonga on Sunday" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/pacific-coronavirus-lockdown-curfew-begin-in-tonga-on-sunday/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific coronavirus: Lockdown, curfew, begin in Tonga on Sunday">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
OPINION: By Antonio Sampaio in Dili The Timor-Leste authorities have to improve significantly the conditions in which journalists are working to cover the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. As the only foreign journalist in East Timor, I support the recommendations made today by the two associations of Timorese journalists. In a statement sent to Lusa ndewsagency, the ... <a title="‘We can’t keep working like this’ – a journalist’s plea to Timorese officials" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/we-cant-keep-working-like-this-a-journalists-plea-to-timorese-officials/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We can’t keep working like this’ – a journalist’s plea to Timorese officials">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin In today’s first chart, which excludes countries with a single death, only Iran features as a country outside of Western Europe. In Europe, worst hit is the ‘Latin’ group in the southwest. I include Switzerland here, which has large Italian‑speaking and French‑speaking components. Next are the Benelux countries – Netherlands, Belgium ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Countries with Highest Death Rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-countries-with-highest-death-rates/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Countries with Highest Death Rates">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Anna Powles and Jose Sousa-Santos of Massey University At the time of writing, there are 63 reported cases of COVID-19 in the Pacific. This includes one in Papua New Guinea, three in Fiji, seven in New Caledonia, 23 in French Polynesia, 29 in Guam and suspected cases in Samoa. The number is relatively ... <a title="Pacific coronavirus: Covid-19 exposes cracks in facade of regionalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/pacific-coronavirus-covid-19-exposes-cracks-in-facade-of-regionalism/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific coronavirus: Covid-19 exposes cracks in facade of regionalism">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Fiji government has banned the vice-chancellor of the University of Fiji from the country, reports Fiji TV News. The Immigration Department reportedly cancelled the work permit of Professor Sushila Chang after she allegedly breached the border restriction order on the Lautoka confined area set up in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. ... <a title="Fiji University vice-chancellor banned after breaking Covid-19 cordon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/fiji-university-vice-chancellor-banned-after-breaking-covid-19-cordon/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji University vice-chancellor banned after breaking Covid-19 cordon">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
Statement by Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, to Parliament. Mr Speaker, I wish to make a Ministerial Statement under Standing Order 347 in relation to the recent declaration of a State of National Emergency. Having considered the advice of the Director Civil Defence Emergency Management, the Minister of Civil Defence declared a State of ... <a title="New Zealand: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s statement on New Zealand Lockdown and State of National Emergency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/new-zealand-prime-minister-jacinda-arderns-statement-on-new-zealand-lockdown-and-state-of-national-emergency/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s statement on New Zealand Lockdown and State of National Emergency">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
By Keith Rankin I keep hearing rather unfortunate ‘expert’ comments in response to questions asked about Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a way of responding to the Covid‑19 economic contraction. These comments all relate to a ‘straw man’ concept of UBI that is obviously unaffordable and impractical. It is not possible to offer any kind ... <a title="Economics: Keith Rankin on Universal Basic Income and Covid‑19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/economics-keith-rankin-on-universal-basic-income-and-covid%e2%80%9119/" aria-label="Read more about Economics: Keith Rankin on Universal Basic Income and Covid‑19">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin In today’s first chart, of daily new cases in Italy and Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark), we see that, at its peak in days 20 and 21 (March 10 and 11), the incidence of known new cases in Scandinavia matched that in Italy. The difference is that new cases stabilised immediately afterwards ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – COVID-19: Exponential Growth in Italy and Scandinavia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-exponential-growth-in-italy-and-scandinavia/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – COVID-19: Exponential Growth in Italy and Scandinavia">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
By RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has recorded a further two Covid-19 cases, bringing its total to nine. Few details have been released but a government spokesperson said the last three cases related to either people who had arrived in the territory or had been in contact with people confirmed to have carried the virus. More ... <a title="Pacific coronavirus: Ninth case in New Caledonia, fourth in Fiji confirmed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/pacific-coronavirus-ninth-case-in-new-caledonia-fourth-in-fiji-confirmed/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific coronavirus: Ninth case in New Caledonia, fourth in Fiji confirmed">Read more</a>
