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March 31, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government will provide a flat $1,500 a fortnight JobKeeper payment per employee for businesses to retain or rehire nearly six million workers, in a massive $130 billion six-month wage subsidy scheme to limit the economic devastation caused by ... <a title="Australia: $1,500 a fortnight JobKeeper wage subsidy in massive $130 billion program" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/31/1-500-a-fortnight-jobkeeper-wage-subsidy-in-massive-130-billion-program-135049/" aria-label="Read more about Australia: $1,500 a fortnight JobKeeper wage subsidy in massive $130 billion program">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin To get a correct picture, we need regional data – indeed sub-regional statistics – because the virus does not respect political boundaries. Unfortunately, it is very hard to get regional data from European countries. The Johns Hopkins data – most widely used by the media (and used in this chart) – ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Deaths as at 29 March 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/30/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-deaths-as-at-29-march-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Deaths as at 29 March 2020">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Wark, Conjoint Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle As the number of COVID-19 cases around the world continues to climb, hospitals are under increased pressure to provide emergency care for the most severely ill patients. What does this involve, and how does ... <a title="How are the most serious COVID-19 cases treated, and does the coronavirus cause lasting damage?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/30/how-are-the-most-serious-covid-19-cases-treated-and-does-the-coronavirus-cause-lasting-damage-134398/" aria-label="Read more about How are the most serious COVID-19 cases treated, and does the coronavirus cause lasting damage?">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute New Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development estimates paint a grim picture of the direct economic costs of public health measures to contain the spread of COVID-19, and the need for more government support to cushion the blow. The ... <a title="New OECD estimates suggest a 22% hit to Australia’s economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/30/new-oecd-estimates-suggest-a-22-hit-to-australias-economy-135026/" aria-label="Read more about New OECD estimates suggest a 22% hit to Australia’s economy">Read more</a>
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March 29, 2020
The South African ‘Don’t Panic Buy’ jingle. Video: ENCA/PickNSave PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a new Pacific Media Watch series. A South African celebrity jingle that has gone viral at the end of this week could easily have been a theme song for ... <a title="How Ardern’s coronavirus kindness theme can become contagious" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/29/how-arderns-coronavirus-kindness-theme-can-become-contagious/" aria-label="Read more about How Ardern’s coronavirus kindness theme can become contagious">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Australian cases have been on an exponent growth path since late February, with no remission yet in sight. The good news is that infection rates remain well below western European levels. The bad news is that death rates – hitherto very low – are accelerating. Indeed Victoria, running with a similar ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the World" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-australia-canada-new-zealand-the-world/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the World">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David King, Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland New cases of the coronavirus are reported every day, and as yet there’s no vaccine. So what treatments are available if you’re one of the unlucky ones who gets infected? If your symptoms are mild, you should treat them ... <a title="How can I treat myself if I’ve got – or think I’ve got – coronavirus?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/how-can-i-treat-myself-if-ive-got-or-think-ive-got-coronavirus-134654/" aria-label="Read more about How can I treat myself if I’ve got – or think I’ve got – coronavirus?">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
IN-DEPTH: By Kate Newton of RNZ News A week ago, Shaun Hendy packed up a desktop computer and monitor at his University of Auckland office and carted the whole lot home to his Grey Lynn bungalow in Auckland. When you’re leading the team that’s modelling the worst-case scenarios for how Covid-19 coronavirus might spread in ... <a title="NZ lockdown – Day 2: Modelling coronavirus from the kitchen table" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/nz-lockdown-day-2-modelling-coronavirus-from-the-kitchen-table/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – Day 2: Modelling coronavirus from the kitchen table">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin In today’s first chart, which excludes countries with a single death, only Iran features as a country outside of Western Europe. In Europe, worst hit is the ‘Latin’ group in the southwest. I include Switzerland here, which has large Italian‑speaking and French‑speaking components. Next are the Benelux countries – Netherlands, Belgium ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Countries with Highest Death Rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-countries-with-highest-death-rates/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Countries with Highest Death Rates">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
Statement by Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, to Parliament. Mr Speaker, I wish to make a Ministerial Statement under Standing Order 347 in relation to the recent declaration of a State of National Emergency. Having considered the advice of the Director Civil Defence Emergency Management, the Minister of Civil Defence declared a State of ... <a title="New Zealand: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s statement on New Zealand Lockdown and State of National Emergency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/new-zealand-prime-minister-jacinda-arderns-statement-on-new-zealand-lockdown-and-state-of-national-emergency/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s statement on New Zealand Lockdown and State of National Emergency">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin In today’s first chart, of daily new cases in Italy and Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark), we see that, at its peak in days 20 and 21 (March 10 and 11), the incidence of known new cases in Scandinavia matched that in Italy. The difference is that new cases stabilised immediately afterwards ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – COVID-19: Exponential Growth in Italy and Scandinavia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-exponential-growth-in-italy-and-scandinavia/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – COVID-19: Exponential Growth in Italy and Scandinavia">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Conor Wynn, PhD Candidate at BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Monash University To some people, fighting in the aisles over toilet paper makes sense. Driven by the social proof of empty shelves and in fear of losing out, they fight. To others, such behaviour would ... <a title="Coronavirus and you: how your personality affects how you cope and what you can do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/25/coronavirus-and-you-how-your-personality-affects-how-you-cope-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-134037/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus and you: how your personality affects how you cope and what you can do about it">Read more</a>
