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July 6, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Michael Toole, Burnet Institute While Australians may be focused on the havoc the Delta variant is wreaking on our shores, Delta is in fact driving waves of covid infections all around the world. With the World Health Organisation (WHO) warning Delta will rapidly become the dominant strain, let’s take a look at this ... <a title="Why is Delta such a worry? It’s more infectious, probably causes more severe disease, and challenges our vaccines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/06/why-is-delta-such-a-worry-its-more-infectious-probably-causes-more-severe-disease-and-challenges-our-vaccines/" aria-label="Read more about Why is Delta such a worry? It’s more infectious, probably causes more severe disease, and challenges our vaccines">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2021
By Litia Cava in Suva Fiji’s opposition SODELPA leader Viliame Gavoka has condemned Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum for their “unimaginable recklessness” over the country’s covid pandemic crisis. The politicians should know “they are held responsible for every covid-19 death for not listening and not doing what is right,” Gavoka said. Fiji ... <a title="SODELPA leader blasts PM, Attorney-General over Fiji covid ‘recklessness’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/06/sodelpa-leader-blasts-pm-attorney-general-over-fiji-covid-recklessness/" aria-label="Read more about SODELPA leader blasts PM, Attorney-General over Fiji covid ‘recklessness’">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2021
RNZ Pacific Public frustration over mixed messages from the government is growing in Fiji as covid-19 continues to spread rapidly. The latest daily update saw another 352 new cases reported yesterday. The Health Ministry also confirmed three more deaths due to the coronavirus, bringing the toll to 33 – 31 from this latest outbreak that ... <a title="Fiji mortuary full, public frustration, confusion rife over covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/06/fiji-mortuary-full-public-frustration-confusion-rife-over-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji mortuary full, public frustration, confusion rife over covid-19">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
By Guyon Espiner, investigative reporter, RNZ In Depth New Zealand Labour MP Louisa Wall has accused China of harvesting organs from political prisoners among the Uyghur and Falun Gong populations. The MP, who is part of a global network of politicians monitoring the actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), also says her own government ... <a title="NZ Labour MP breaks ranks to accuse China of organ harvesting, slave labour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/nz-labour-mp-breaks-ranks-to-accuse-china-of-organ-harvesting-slave-labour/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Labour MP breaks ranks to accuse China of organ harvesting, slave labour">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
By Repeka Nasiko in Lautoka A video by a Fiji doctor on adverse side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been misconstrued to support conspiracy theories and myths not supported by any scientific evidence, says Fiji College of General Practitioners president Dr Ram Raju. He said the college “does not condone any member spreading false ... <a title="Fiji GPs chief criticises ‘misconstrued’ video supporting conspiracy theories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/fiji-gps-chief-criticises-misconstrued-video-supporting-conspiracy-theories/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji GPs chief criticises ‘misconstrued’ video supporting conspiracy theories">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
RNZ Pacific More than 2000 demonstrators in French Polynesia have joined a march in the capital Pape’ete to mark the 55th anniversary of the first French nuclear weapons test in the Pacific. The rally was attended by the pro-independence opposition, veterans groups and the Māohi Protestant Church — some carrying banners declaring a “crime against ... <a title="Tahiti protest rally marks France’s ‘crime against humanity’ first atomic test in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/tahiti-protest-rally-marks-frances-crime-against-humanity-first-atomic-test-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti protest rally marks France’s ‘crime against humanity’ first atomic test in Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board How quickly things change. If, as the old cliche goes, a week is a long time in politics then a month is an eternity. As a story on the front page of the Weekend Observer revealed, the caretaker government is once again seeking to shape the outcome of ... <a title="Samoa Observer: The nation’s chief justice – a gift from above" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/samoa-observer-the-nations-chief-justice-a-gift-from-above/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: The nation’s chief justice – a gift from above">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2021
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva Fiji has reported 522 new cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours – a record number of daily cases. The Fiji government has also confirmed three more deaths due to the coronavirus, bringing the toll to 30. The Health Ministry said that all three were unvaccinated ... <a title="Fiji reports record 522 new cases of covid-19 – three more deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/04/fiji-reports-record-522-new-cases-of-covid-19-three-more-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji reports record 522 new cases of covid-19 – three more deaths">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2021
By Litia Cava in Suva The Fiji Civil Society Organisation Alliance for COVID-19 Humanitarian Response has repeated a call for the resignation of the country’s Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. The alliance claims that he is taking the country into chaos and says it is deeply concerned about lives being unnecessarily lost as a result of ... <a title="Sayed-Khaiyum leading Fiji into chaos, says women’s crisis centre leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/04/sayed-khaiyum-leading-fiji-into-chaos-says-womens-crisis-centre-leader/" aria-label="Read more about Sayed-Khaiyum leading Fiji into chaos, says women’s crisis centre leader">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2021
By Mark Ladao in Honolulu Dr Haunani-Kay Trask, a Hawai’ian leader and sovereignty activist with a distinguished career as an academic at the University of Hawai’i, died today at age 71. The sovereignty organisation Ka Lahui Hawai‘i on Facebook shared a post recalling Trask’s legacy, “We love you our great kumu, leader, and voice for ... <a title="Hawai’ian sovereignty activist and UH educator Haunani-Kay Trask dies at 71" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/04/hawaiian-sovereignty-activist-and-uh-educator-haunani-kay-trask-dies-at-71/" aria-label="Read more about Hawai’ian sovereignty activist and UH educator Haunani-Kay Trask dies at 71">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala On 27 May 2021, a significant event took place in Rwanda where French President Emmanuel Macron asked for forgiveness from the people of Rwanda after admitting for the first time that France bore a “terrible responsibility” for the deaths of hundreds of thousands in the 1994 genocide. ... <a title="Mā’ohi Nui’s search for nuclear justice – the French ‘reset’ button still to be reset" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/03/maohi-nuis-search-for-nuclear-justice-the-french-reset-button-still-to-be-reset/" aria-label="Read more about Mā’ohi Nui’s search for nuclear justice – the French ‘reset’ button still to be reset">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2021
RNZ Pacific Fiji has recorded another 404 new cases of covid-19 and five deaths in the 24 hours to 8am on Friday. Most of the new cases are from the western and central division where the capital Suva is located, according to the Health Ministry. Health Secretary Dr James Fong said two of the latest ... <a title="Fiji suffers 5 more deaths, 404 new cases in covid crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/03/fiji-suffers-5-more-deaths-404-new-cases-in-covid-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji suffers 5 more deaths, 404 new cases in covid crisis">Read more</a>
