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April 28, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Off-label drugs may now be used in clinical trials in the Philippines to test possible cures for the coronavirus, pandemic, the Department of Health (DOH) has announced. During the department’s regular afternoon briefing yesterday, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said the DOH is coordinating with the World Health Organisation (WHO) for the ... <a title="Off-label drugs may now be used in Philippines coronavirus trials" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/off-label-drugs-may-now-be-used-in-philippines-coronavirus-trials/" aria-label="Read more about Off-label drugs may now be used in Philippines coronavirus trials">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2020
By Anish Chand in Suva Political leaders are known to beat around the bush when it comes to answering serious topics and when faced with a hard-nosed journalist who wants the story he or she is chasing. With the late Laisenia Qarase – who died last week – he never lied and spoke his mind ... <a title="A media tribute to Fiji’s late former PM Laisenia Qarase" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/a-media-tribute-to-fijis-late-former-pm-laisenia-qarase/" aria-label="Read more about A media tribute to Fiji’s late former PM Laisenia Qarase">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand has identified another nine cases of the covid-19 coronavirus, but no new deaths. The new cases include four confirmed and five probable cases, bringing New Zealand’s total cases to 1470. Four of the new cases were linked to New Zealand’s 16 clusters, and the others were all linked to other ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 32: Nine more cases, no new deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/nz-lockdown-day-32-nine-more-cases-no-new-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 32: Nine more cases, no new deaths">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Indonesian human rights advocacy group TAPOL has denounced the sentencing by the district court of Central Jakarta which found six political prisoners guilty of treason yesterday and demanded their immediate release. Paulus Suryanta Ginting, Ambrosius Mulait, Ariana Elopere, Dano Tabuni, and Charles Kossay were sentenced to nine months imprisonment, whereas Isay ... <a title="TAPOL denounces sentences handed to Jakarta Six, calls for their release" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/tapol-denounces-sentences-handed-to-jakarta-six-calls-for-their-release/" aria-label="Read more about TAPOL denounces sentences handed to Jakarta Six, calls for their release">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Predictions It is dangerous to predict how pandemics will pan out. In Covid19 by the Numbers, Anatole Kaletsky (writing for Project Syndicate on 10 March 2020) used what looked like advanced analysis to conclude that at most 750,000 outside of China would contract Covid19. (He admitted he was wide of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Will Covid-19 remain a First-World Disease?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/keith-rankin-analysis-will-covid-19-remain-a-first-world-disease/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Will Covid-19 remain a First-World Disease?">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2020
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Reporters Without Borders has just published its annual World Press Freedom Index ranking countries over censorship. Video: Hannah Cleaver/DW PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie Against a backdrop of many governments using tough controls under cover of fighting the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic to strengthen “creeping authoritarianism”, ... <a title="Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, global media freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/25/tough-coronavirus-controls-threaten-pacific-global-media-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Tough coronavirus controls threaten Pacific, global media freedom">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2020
DISPATCH FROM THE PACIFIC: By Professor Elisabeth Holland. She writes from a remote island in Fiji’s Koro Sea where she went to stay out of the way of Covid-19, as named by the World Health Organisation (WHO), or SARS-CoV-2, as named by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. The island is in the Lomaviti ... <a title="When Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the novel coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/22/when-tropical-cyclone-harold-meets-the-novel-coronavirus/" aria-label="Read more about When Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the novel coronavirus">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Today’s chart looks back to the years 1917 to 1920, using a sampling device I call the ‘Smithometer’. I have counted the weekly deaths of all people named Smith, from the beginning of 1917 to the end of 1920. At that time New Zealand was a country of 1.2 million people. ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – The Smithometer: New Zealand’s mortality during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/21/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-the-smithometer-new-zealands-mortality-during-the-1918-influenza-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – The Smithometer: New Zealand’s mortality during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic">Read more</a>
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April 18, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Support this progressive voice and be a part of it. Donate to COHA today. Click here By John Perry From Masaya, Nicaragua The right-wing opposition in Nicaragua, having failed in their attempted coup in 2018, still looks at any potential crisis as a new opportunity to attack the ... <a title="Nicaraguan Right-wing Opposition Misrepresents Government Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/18/nicaraguan-right-wing-opposition-misrepresents-government-response-to-the-covid-19-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Nicaraguan Right-wing Opposition Misrepresents Government Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic">Read more</a>
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April 18, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Marcia Cury Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s statements are at first shocking, leaving one wondering what he really means. But they are not surprising in the context of the paranoid rhetoric that has always characterized his administration. Since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic that is ravaging the ... <a title="Bolsonaro, COVID-19, and the Crisis of Brazilian Democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/18/bolsonaro-covid-19-and-the-crisis-of-brazilian-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Bolsonaro, COVID-19, and the Crisis of Brazilian Democracy">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Today’s first chart looks at death rates for six major countries. We see that Spain has overtaken Italy, and that France and United Kingdom are likely to catch up with these in a week. We also note that United Kingdom death rates, as reported have been understated; these are basically hospital ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Weekly Summary Charts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/17/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-covid19-weekly-summary-charts/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Covid19: Weekly Summary Charts">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2020
By Wansolwara News A 21-year-old man on Fiji’s Vanua Levu island has tested positive for the Covid-19 novel coronavirus, taking the total number of cases in the country to 17. Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama said the man was a relative and travelling companion of case nine. He said they travelled together from India to Singapore ... <a title="Fiji imposes new lockdowns on Vanua Levu after virus cases rise to 17" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/17/fiji-imposes-new-lockdowns-on-vanua-levu-after-virus-cases-rise-to-17/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji imposes new lockdowns on Vanua Levu after virus cases rise to 17">Read more</a>
