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August 12, 2020
People calling New Zealand’s covid-19 healthline were facing long waits on hold today as the phone line struggles with high demand as the largest city of Auckland was poised for a three-day lockdown. This follows Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s announcement last night of four positive cases of covid-19 outside of managed isolation or quarantine in ... <a title="Hundreds call busy NZ healthline over new lockdown, emergency text resent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/hundreds-call-busy-nz-healthline-over-new-lockdown-emergency-text-resent/" aria-label="Read more about Hundreds call busy NZ healthline over new lockdown, emergency text resent">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Four positive cases of covid-19 outside of managed isolation or quarantine have been reported and New Zealand has activated a resurgence plan. After 102 days without community transmission they are the first cases acquired from an unknown source, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced tonight. Ardern said New Zealand must take a “precautionary” approach as no ... <a title="Four new covid cases push NZ into three-day resurgence plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/four-new-covid-cases-push-nz-into-three-day-resurgence-plan/" aria-label="Read more about Four new covid cases push NZ into three-day resurgence plan">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand has reported one new case of covid-19 in managed isolation today, the Ministry of Health has confirmed. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said the new case was a man in his 20s who arrived from Melbourne on July 30. He was in isolation at the Grand Millennium hotel and ... <a title="One new NZ case of covid in isolation as Bloomfield says he will try test" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/one-new-nz-case-of-covid-in-isolation-as-bloomfield-says-he-will-try-test/" aria-label="Read more about One new NZ case of covid in isolation as Bloomfield says he will try test">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk As Guam’s health statistics continue to mount, covid-19 has hit the first family, reports the Pacific Island Times. Following Governor Lou Leon Guerrero’s disclosure last night that she had tested positive for covid-19, her son Joaquin Cook, president of the Bank of Guam, revealed he has also been hit by the ... <a title="Guam’s first family hit by covid – governor’s son tells his story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/guams-first-family-hit-by-covid-governors-son-tells-his-story/" aria-label="Read more about Guam’s first family hit by covid – governor’s son tells his story">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre has protested to Facebook over censorship of a West Papuan media freedom news item in what its director, Professor David Robie, has described as an Orwellian example of the “tyranny of algorithms”. The news item, published by the International Federation of Journalists on its Asia-Pacific website, reported the ... <a title="PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/pmc-protests-to-facebook-over-censored-west-papua-news-item/" aria-label="Read more about PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Radio 95bFM The Wire’s Zoë Larsen Cumming and Justin Wong talked to Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie today about a resurgence of coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea and the impact of other Pacific cases on two very important upcoming votes in Bougainville and New Caledonia. Speaking on the ... <a title="New covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/new-covid-cases-in-png-bougainville-new-caledonia-and-tahiti-aired/" aria-label="Read more about New covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Lihir is the second mine in Papua New Guinea to report a confirmed covid-19 case as the national total of infections reached 214 at the weekend. Newcrest Mining Limited confirmed that a 30-year-old male, a mine employee who had flown in from the capital Port Moresby on July 30, had tested positive. He was detected ... <a title="Second PNG mine confirms covid case as national infections top 200" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/second-png-mine-confirms-covid-case-as-national-infections-top-200/" aria-label="Read more about Second PNG mine confirms covid case as national infections top 200">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
A senior journalism lecturer is urging the foreign media to respect New Zealand’s strict reporting restrictions for the sentencing of the gunman who carried out the Christchurch mosque attacks last year. Brenton Tarrant will be sentenced in the High Court in Christchurch beginning on Monday, August 24. Eighteen overseas and 11 New Zealand news organisations ... <a title="Foreign media told to ‘obey rules’ over mosque gunman sentencing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/foreign-media-told-to-obey-rules-over-mosque-gunman-sentencing/" aria-label="Read more about Foreign media told to ‘obey rules’ over mosque gunman sentencing">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2020
By Michael Baker, University of Otago; Amanda Kvalsvig, University of Otago, and Nick Wilson, University of Otago Tomorrow, New Zealand will mark 100 days without community transmission of covid-19. From the first known case imported into New Zealand on February 26 to the last case of community transmission detected on May 1, elimination took 65 ... <a title="100 days without covid-19: how NZ got rid of a globally spreading virus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/08/100-days-without-covid-19-how-nz-got-rid-of-a-globally-spreading-virus/" aria-label="Read more about 100 days without covid-19: how NZ got rid of a globally spreading virus">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
By RNZ Pacific France’s new overseas minister Sebastien Lecornu says New Caledonia’s restrictions over the covid-19 pandemic will not affect the preparations for the October referendum on independence. Lecornu gave the assessment during a visit to New Caledonia House in Paris. Paris is expected to send dozens of officials and magistrates to supervise the plebiscite, ... <a title="New French minister says New Caledonia referendum on track" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/new-french-minister-says-new-caledonia-referendum-on-track/" aria-label="Read more about New French minister says New Caledonia referendum on track">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2020
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Port Moresby may need to expand its covid-19 isolation facilities quickly and effectively in case a big spike in cases occurs, a doctor says. Rita Flynn isolation facility manager Dr Gary Nou said it would be a disaster if the spread of covid-19 in the capital city continued to ... <a title="Port Moresby may need to expand covid isolation facilities, warns doctor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/port-moresby-may-need-to-expand-covid-isolation-facilities-warns-doctor/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby may need to expand covid isolation facilities, warns doctor">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Indonesia’s West Papua province has again been recorded as having the worst democracy index in the republic, reports CNN Indonesia. This year (2019), the West Papuan Democracy Index (IDI) was 57.62, even dropping lower from 2018 when it was 58.29 points. Based on data from the National Statistics Agency (BPS), West ... <a title="West Papua scores lowest democracy index, free expression declines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/west-papua-scores-lowest-democracy-index-free-expression-declines/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua scores lowest democracy index, free expression declines">Read more</a>
