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August 16, 2020
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer The announcement that Auckland was going into lockdown for a second time was met with a deluge of conspiracy theories and misinformation, including from several prominent political figures. That “infodemic” is forcing journalists to confront the question of how they should report on the rapid rise of social media-fueled ... <a title="NZ covid-19: Confronting the deluge of conspiracies over the latest lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/16/nz-covid-19-confronting-the-deluge-of-conspiracies-over-the-latest-lockdown/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid-19: Confronting the deluge of conspiracies over the latest lockdown">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre “Climate change may be slower but its momentum is enormous.” – Stuart Chape, Acting Director-General, South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP). Does anyone remember Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish environmentalist who caused a worldwide climate change stir – particularly among the neoliberal believers – but was ... <a title="How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/15/how-covid-19-has-undermined-climate-change-initiatives-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2020
By RNZ News A person who arrived in Japan from New Zealand with covid-19 visited Wairakei Terraces and Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland in Rotorua and Taupō shortly before their departure, health authorities have revealed. As a precaution, Toi Te Ora Public Health have alerted the public there was a “small possibility” they may have been exposed ... <a title="NZ traveller who arrives in Japan with covid-19 visited Rotorua and Taupō" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/15/nz-traveller-who-arrives-in-japan-with-covid-19-visited-rotorua-and-taupo/" aria-label="Read more about NZ traveller who arrives in Japan with covid-19 visited Rotorua and Taupō">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2020
By Cook Islands News Former Cook Islands prime minister Dr Joe Williams, 82, a distinguished medical practitioner in Auckland, has been admitted to hospital with covid-19. His medical practice was near the Americold cold store at the centre of the new community-transmission virus cluster in New Zealand. The practice is used by many Auckland Cook ... <a title="Former Cooks PM Dr Joe Williams in hospital – NZ cluster derails flight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/15/former-cooks-pm-dr-joe-williams-in-hospital-nz-cluster-derails-flight/" aria-label="Read more about Former Cooks PM Dr Joe Williams in hospital – NZ cluster derails flight">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 The lack of testing of staff at New Zealand’s border is extraordinary, a prominent epidemiologist says. Health officials are frantically trying to trace the origin of the covid-19 cluster in Auckland, which could have come from the border. Otago University professor Sir David Skegg told RNZ Morning Report reports show more than ... <a title="NZ’s lack of covid testing of staff at border ‘extraordinary’, says Skegg" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/nzs-lack-of-covid-testing-of-staff-at-border-extraordinary-says-skegg/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s lack of covid testing of staff at border ‘extraordinary’, says Skegg">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
By Grant Duncan, Massey University If New Zealand can do grocery shopping under lockdown, we can vote under lockdown too. As much as supermarkets and pharmacies, the general election is an essential service and it must continue. There are ways and means to safely exercise our democratic rights during lockdown. The prime minister left it ... <a title="Voting is an essential service too. Why NZ can’t be afraid to go to the polls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/voting-is-an-essential-service-too-why-nz-cant-be-afraid-to-go-to-the-polls/" aria-label="Read more about Voting is an essential service too. Why NZ can’t be afraid to go to the polls">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>
