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March 24, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin The USA has been on a consisted exponential growth path since day 11 (March 1). Italian Covid‑19 incidence levels – currently just over 8,000 known cases per 10 million people on 23 March – will be reached in the United States by day 39 (Sunday, March 29) if there is no ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Exponential Growth in United States and United Kingdom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/24/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-exponential-growth-in-united-states-and-united-kingdom/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Exponential Growth in United States and United Kingdom">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2020
By RNZ News Four new cases of community transmission have been reported in New Zealand today, as the Health Ministry revealed 40 new cases of Covid-19 in this country, taking the total to 155 infected people. They include four cases of community transmission – three in Auckland, one in Wairarapa. Two of the four were ... <a title="Four new cases of community transmission of Covid-19 in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/24/four-new-cases-of-community-transmission-of-covid-19-in-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Four new cases of community transmission of Covid-19 in NZ">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago Overjoyed. That’s not a word epidemiologists normally use, but that’s how I felt after hearing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s announcement about New Zealand’s COVID-19 shutdown of everything except essential services for at least four weeks from midnight on ... <a title="‘Overjoyed’: a leading health expert on New Zealand’s coronavirus shutdown, and the challenging weeks ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/24/overjoyed-a-leading-health-expert-on-new-zealands-coronavirus-shutdown-and-the-challenging-weeks-ahead-134395/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Overjoyed’: a leading health expert on New Zealand’s coronavirus shutdown, and the challenging weeks ahead">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2020
OPINION: By Scott Waide in Lae So it’s a global pandemic with 16,000+ dead already, more than 375,000 infected and nearly 102,000 recovered. It was a national health worry. But within days, it became a national emergency. The Prime Minister James Marape taking advice from the National Security Council, a state of emergency declared and ... <a title="What are the lessons with Covid-19? Seeing the ironies through a PNG lens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/24/what-are-the-lessons-with-covid-19-seeing-the-ironies-through-a-png-lens/" aria-label="Read more about What are the lessons with Covid-19? Seeing the ironies through a PNG lens">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Hugh Breakey of Griffith University As Australia and New Zealand move into lockdown mode in response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, we are increasingly faced with serious ethical questions about what ordinary people should be obliged to do for others. These challenges can perhaps best be seen in the outrage as people flocked ... <a title="Acting selfishly has consequences – ethical decisions amid virus crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/24/acting-selfishly-has-consequences-ethical-decisions-amid-virus-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Acting selfishly has consequences – ethical decisions amid virus crisis">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2020
New Zealanders are preparing to go into an unprecedented lockdown period at midnight on Wednesday to stem the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced this afternoon that the Covid-19 alert level would rise to level four on Wednesday night. It was confirmed the country now has 102 cases – with ... <a title="NZ prepares for unprecedented virus lockdown – 36 new Covid-19 cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/23/nz-prepares-for-unprecedented-virus-lockdown-36-new-covid-19-cases/" aria-label="Read more about NZ prepares for unprecedented virus lockdown – 36 new Covid-19 cases">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The two charts here are presented using a ‘logarithmic’ scale. This is the appropriate way of representing any data time series that would normally exhibit exponential growth. ‘Exponential growth’ means that normal growth is measured in percentage terms rather than actual numbers. Common measures that grow exponentially are consumer prices (this ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Slowing Exponential Growth in Italy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/23/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-slowing-exponential-growth-in-italy/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Slowing Exponential Growth in Italy">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has revealed there are 36 new cases of Covid-19 in the country, taking the total to 102. “So these are people who have returned to New Zealand recently and have become symptomatic, been tested and confirmed as cases of Covid-19,” he said. “Most of the remaining ... <a title="36 new cases of Covid-19 in NZ, taking infected total to 102" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/23/36-new-cases-of-covid-19-in-nz-taking-infected-total-to-102/" aria-label="Read more about 36 new cases of Covid-19 in NZ, taking infected total to 102">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2020
By Eva Corlett of RNZ As more cases of Covid-19 arise, New Zealanders are being cautioned to work from home or stay home if sick – but what if you don’t have a home? Agencies working with New Zealand’s homeless community worry that people living on the street will be left behind, if there is ... <a title="NZ’s homeless particularly vulnerable during Covid-19 pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/23/nzs-homeless-particularly-vulnerable-during-covid-19-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s homeless particularly vulnerable during Covid-19 pandemic">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape has declared a national state of emergency and warned the public to prepare for a two-week national lockdown starting tomorrow. The prime minister made the announcement in a public address last night after a national emergency meeting in the capital Port Moresby to discuss the ... <a title="PNG orders lockdown from tomorrow as Covid-19 response ramps up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/23/png-orders-lockdown-from-tomorrow-as-covid-19-response-ramps-up/" aria-label="Read more about PNG orders lockdown from tomorrow as Covid-19 response ramps up">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. While the number of cases of Covid-19 remains very small relative to the world’s population, a number of prominent people have been caught up in it. It seems to be very much an international travellers’ disease, with people who travel the most being at highest risk. The highest incidences of Covid‑19 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: A Jetsetter Disease?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-a-jetsetter-disease/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: A Jetsetter Disease?">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
The Government says it is “going hard and going early” to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic. But how true is this? Some public health experts and commentators do not believe the Government is being radical enough, and that the consequences, in terms of life and death, could be huge. Leading the charge for a more ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should the Government be locking the country down now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-should-the-government-be-locking-the-country-down-now/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should the Government be locking the country down now?">Read more</a>
