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September 21, 2021
RNZ News A testing centre is being set up at a marae in New Zealand’s Waikato settlement of Kaiaua today after three community cases of covid-19 were confirmed in the region. They are household members of a man with the virus who is in remand at Mount Eden prison in Auckland. The Ministry of Health ... <a title="Three new NZ ‘breakout’ covid cases in Waikato include two students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/21/three-new-nz-breakout-covid-cases-in-waikato-include-two-students/" aria-label="Read more about Three new NZ ‘breakout’ covid cases in Waikato include two students">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
RNZ News As Auckland waits to hear if it will move down an alert level this week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has assured New Zealand the level four lockdown is having an impact, even with a small rise in case numbers in the past two days. Ardern and Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay ... <a title="NZ delta’s tail is ‘long and tough’, says PM Jacinda Ardern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/nz-deltas-tail-is-long-and-tough-says-pm-jacinda-ardern/" aria-label="Read more about NZ delta’s tail is ‘long and tough’, says PM Jacinda Ardern">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
RNZ Pacific The New Caledonian government has extended the current lockdown as well as the curfew, until October as the covid-19 pandemic worsens. On Thursday, seven deaths from covid-19 were recorded, the heaviest daily toll since the discovery of the first indigenous cases of the disease on September 6. It brings the death toll to ... <a title="New Caledonia extends lockdown – covid death toll now 24" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/new-caledonia-extends-lockdown-covid-death-toll-now-24/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia extends lockdown – covid death toll now 24">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Ten people have died from Papua New Guinea’s covid-19 pandemic and 203 new cases were reported in five days from September 9 as National Pandemic Response Deputy Controller Dr Daoni Esorom made a red alert call on Independence Day “super spreader” events. “Papua New Guineans are just not heeding ... <a title="Covid-19 red alert over PNG ‘super spreader’ independence events" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/covid-19-red-alert-over-png-super-spreader-independence-events/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 red alert over PNG ‘super spreader’ independence events">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji will lift the covid-19 pandemic containment borders everywhere on the main island of Viti Levu from 4am tomorrow, Friday, September 17. Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama announced this tonight, fulfilling what he had declared earlier last month that the borders on Viti Levu would be lifted once 60 percent of ... <a title="Fiji opens Viti Levu covid containment borders from 4am tomorrow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/fiji-opens-viti-levu-covid-containment-borders-from-4am-tomorrow/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji opens Viti Levu covid containment borders from 4am tomorrow">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2021
By Grace Auka Salmang in Port Moresby Police Commissioner and Controller of the PNG National Pandemic Response David Manning has authorised the release of new measures to address the covid-19 pandemic in the country on the eve of the 46th Independence Day. Manning said these new measures, which came into effect yesterday, September 15, 2021, ... <a title="PNG controller issues new measures as covid-19 remains threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/16/png-controller-issues-new-measures-as-covid-19-remains-threat/" aria-label="Read more about PNG controller issues new measures as covid-19 remains threat">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk French High Commissioner Patrice Faure in New Caledonia has declared an eight hour curfew for 15 days from tonight as health authorities reported 256 new cases yesterday in the covid delta variant outbreak. The curfew will run from 9pm to 5am Government spokesman Yannick Slamet and Health Director Dr Mabon de ... <a title="New Caledonia imposes curfew as delta outbreak new cases hit 256" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/new-caledonia-imposes-curfew-as-delta-outbreak-new-cases-hit-256/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia imposes curfew as delta outbreak new cases hit 256">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea has dispatched a team of government officials to investigate a covid-19 delta variant threat in its two frontline provinces bordering Indonesia’s Papua — Western and West Sepik. Health Minister Jelta Wong has revealed this in Parliament while responding to questions without notice. Admitting the rise of ... <a title="PNG dispatches investigators to check out ‘delta threat’ on Papuan border" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/png-dispatches-investigators-to-check-out-delta-threat-on-papuan-border/" aria-label="Read more about PNG dispatches investigators to check out ‘delta threat’ on Papuan border">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
RNZ News Auckland will stay in covid-19 alert level 4 for another week until 11.59pm next Tuesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. Cabinet has made an in principle decision that Tāmaki Makaurau will then move to alert level 3. The rest of New Zealand will remain in alert level 2 until Tuesday next week. Alert ... <a title="Ardern says Auckland to stay in lockdown for another week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/ardern-says-auckland-to-stay-in-lockdown-for-another-week/" aria-label="Read more about Ardern says Auckland to stay in lockdown for another week">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Pasifika local government politician in New Zealand, the first from Kiribati to be elected to political office, has appealed to “Pasifika friends and family” to get vaccinated now as part of the national covid rollout. Victoria Short, deputy chair of Auckland’s Hibiscus and Bays Local Board, says not to wait. ... <a title="Plea to Pasifika ‘friends and family’, community to get covid shots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/plea-to-pasifika-friends-and-family-community-to-get-covid-shots/" aria-label="Read more about Plea to Pasifika ‘friends and family’, community to get covid shots">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
RNZ News Covid-19 numbers dropped slightly today to 20 new community cases, while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a deal with Denmark to bring 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to this country. The number of new delta variant community cases in New Zealand dropped back to 20 cases from yesterday’s 23, which was the ... <a title="NZ’s covid-19 numbers drop to 20 new cases – new vaccine deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/nzs-covid-19-numbers-drop-to-20-new-cases-new-vaccine-deal/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s covid-19 numbers drop to 20 new cases – new vaccine deal">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2021
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has recorded its first death of the Covid-19 pandemic. The fatality was announced by territorial President Louis Mapou today in a televised address. He said the victim was an elderly person — aged 75 — who had died in hospital. The fatality comes four days after the first three cases of ... <a title="New Caledonia reports first covid death – 117 cases in four days" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/11/new-caledonia-reports-first-covid-death-117-cases-in-four-days/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia reports first covid death – 117 cases in four days">Read more</a>
