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August 19, 2020
COMMENT: By Teuila Fuatai South Auckland and its communities, specifically Pasifika, are at the centre of New Zealand’s current covid-19 cluster. As a result, media coverage, health information and public reaction have taken a significantly different tone to what occurred during New Zealand’s first wave of cases. Racism and misinformation continue to marginalise the “index” ... <a title="Teuila Fuatai: Vitriol harms Pasifika as much as the covid pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/19/teuila-fuatai-vitriol-harms-pasifika-as-much-as-the-covid-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Teuila Fuatai: Vitriol harms Pasifika as much as the covid pandemic">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Schools in Papua New Guinea’s National Capital District resumed yesterday, with strict covid-19 protocols in place, and with several turning away those who came without masks. This came in the wake of a new covid-19 spike with PNG reporting another 52 cases of covid-19 yesterday since Thursday, taking its total to ... <a title="PNG schools follow no-mask-no-entry rule amid growing covid cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/18/png-schools-follow-no-mask-no-entry-rule-amid-growing-covid-cases/" aria-label="Read more about PNG schools follow no-mask-no-entry rule amid growing covid cases">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2020
By Jean Bell, RNZ News journalist Some South Auckland locals are hitting back at online hate directed at the area and its Pasifika community, after a local family was the first to test positive for covid-19 in the current New Zealand outbreak. Four positive cases ballooned to a 58-case cluster after 102 days of no ... <a title="South Auckland locals hit back against online hate around NZ covid cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/18/south-auckland-locals-hit-back-against-online-hate-around-nz-covid-cases/" aria-label="Read more about South Auckland locals hit back against online hate around NZ covid cases">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Bali chapter of the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) has held a weekend protest action at the Renon traffic circle in the provincial capital of Denpasar to mark 58 years since the UN-brokered 1962 New York Agreement. During the action on Saturday, which was closely watched by police, the protesters issued ... <a title="Papuan students in Bali protest over New York pact – demand freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/17/papuan-students-in-bali-protest-over-new-york-pact-demand-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan students in Bali protest over New York pact – demand freedom">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2020
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News journalist As covid-19 spreads around the world, it can be daunting keeping up with the information. For RNZ, the news organisation’s responsibility is to give you verified, up to the minute, trustworthy information to help you make decisions about your lives and your health. Questions will also be asked of ... <a title="NZ covid-19: Social media in the spotlight after disinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/17/nz-covid-19-social-media-in-the-spotlight-after-disinformation/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid-19: Social media in the spotlight after disinformation">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Arturo López-Levy From Oakland, California Throughout the Democratic Party primary for the 2020 elections, for the first time all the candidates proposed a policy towards Cuba in line with the course of dialogue and exchange led by President Barack Obama in his last two years in office. ... <a title="Five key questions about Cuba in the current US election campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/15/five-key-questions-about-cuba-in-the-current-us-election-campaign/" aria-label="Read more about Five key questions about Cuba in the current US election campaign">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By RNZ News Auckland will remain in alert level three for a full two weeks, with the New Zealand government announcing that the country will remain at current covid-19 alert levels for 12 more days. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield have announced the decision today at a briefing at ... <a title="NZ’s Auckland lockdown to continue for 12 more days, says Ardern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/nzs-auckland-lockdown-to-continue-for-12-more-days-says-ardern/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Auckland lockdown to continue for 12 more days, says Ardern">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand has announced there are 12 new cases and one probable case of covid-19 in Auckland and Waikato today. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield revealed at today’s daily briefing there were now a total of 48 active cases, with 30 linked to the community outbreak. The total number of confirmed ... <a title="NZ covid-19 update: 12 new confirmed cases, one probable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/nz-covid-19-update-12-new-confirmed-cases-one-probable/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid-19 update: 12 new confirmed cases, one probable">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Some Cook Islanders are expressing anger at the failure to implement stronger border control public health measures in response to 17 new community-transmitted covid-19 cases in New Zealand – and a further 13 today. Social media is abuzz with comments from some concerned locals. The island’s 10 volunteer puna cannot effectively manage supervised quarantine at ... <a title="‘Don’t risk our lives’ over covid, warns opposition Cook Islands Democrats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/dont-risk-our-lives-over-covid-warns-opposition-cook-islands-democrats/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Don’t risk our lives’ over covid, warns opposition Cook Islands Democrats">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 NEWS Pacific correspondent Pasifika family or just an Auckland family? There has been much debate over whether it was wrong to identify the family at the centre of New Zealand’s covid-cluster as a “Pasifika family”. As Pacific correspondent let me make this clear – it would have been the absolute peak ... <a title="Barbara Dreaver: Should we identify the first covid family as Pasifika? Yes we should, and here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/barbara-dreaver-should-we-identify-the-first-covid-family-as-pasifika-yes-we-should-and-heres-why/" aria-label="Read more about Barbara Dreaver: Should we identify the first covid family as Pasifika? Yes we should, and here’s why">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand Health Minister Chris Hipkins says there are more covid-19 cases related to the Auckland cluster which will be revealed at 1pm today. He says for New Zealand to move to alert level 4 there would need to be a number of clusters and unconnected cases. Earlier, Auckland Mayor Phil Goff ... <a title="NZ covid-19 update: More coronavirus cases linked to Auckland cluster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/nz-covid-19-update-more-coronavirus-cases-linked-to-auckland-cluster/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid-19 update: More coronavirus cases linked to Auckland cluster">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch Pacific health specialist Dr Collin Tukuitonga is worried that the latest community transmission of covid-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand “could get very messy”. “The latest cluster is a worry because the source is unknown and highly probable as community transmission,” says Dr Tukuitonga, who was heavily involved during ... <a title="Covid spread could ‘decimate’ Pasifika, Māori communities, warns Tukuitonga" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/covid-spread-could-decimate-pasifika-maori-communities-warns-tukuitonga/" aria-label="Read more about Covid spread could ‘decimate’ Pasifika, Māori communities, warns Tukuitonga">Read more</a>
