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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
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk French authorities say 50 gendarmes who had been deployed in French Polynesia have tested positive to covid-19 after their return to France, reports Tahiti’s Radio One. The police were part of a group of 82 from Tarbes who had just returned home, the prefecture in the Hautes-Pyrenees department announced. The news ... <a title="50 French police who have returned from Polynesia test covid positive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/50-french-police-who-have-returned-from-polynesia-test-covid-positive/" aria-label="Read more about 50 French police who have returned from Polynesia test covid positive">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>
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August 13, 2020
By Patricia Kamo in Port Moresby A bus driver in Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby says it is hard to force passengers to wear masks when they walk in. It is one of the measures put in place after the lifting of the country’s 14-day restrictions. Driver Mark Duma, of Nebilyer in Western Highlands, ... <a title="Bus driver tells of masks resistance as PNG announces record covid cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/bus-driver-tells-of-masks-resistance-as-png-announces-record-covid-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Bus driver tells of masks resistance as PNG announces record covid cases">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
By RNZ News Senior Labour MP Grant Robertson has rejected opposition National’s suggestion that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern step back from announcements on covid-19 alert levels so close to a New Zealand election. National Party leader Judith Collins says it should be health officials, not the Labour leader, announcing changes to alert levels. Collins is ... <a title="Robertson rejects National suggestion for PM to ‘step back’ over covid calls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/robertson-rejects-national-suggestion-for-pm-to-step-back-over-covid-calls/" aria-label="Read more about Robertson rejects National suggestion for PM to ‘step back’ over covid calls">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
By The Bougainvillean Bougainville is heading to the polls today amid its first case of the covid-19 in thefourth general election of Papua New Guinea’s autonomous region since 2001. While this election is critically important in the region’s push for independence from mainland PNG, it comes at a time when there is much distress brought ... <a title="Bougainvilleans go to polls today in spite of first covid-19 case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/bougainvilleans-go-to-polls-today-in-spite-of-first-covid-19-case/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainvilleans go to polls today in spite of first covid-19 case">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
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 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>
