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July 9, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s Controller of the National Pandemic Response and Police Commissioner, David Manning, has told the public that a rumour circulating on social media about new cases of covid-19 in Port Moresby is false, the PNG Post-Courier reports. He also cautioned the public from spreading misinformation and fake news which ... <a title="PNG covid response controller warns public against fake news" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/09/png-covid-response-controller-warns-public-against-fake-news/" aria-label="Read more about PNG covid response controller warns public against fake news">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
By RNZ News Health Minister Chris Hipkins says New Zealand’s latest case of covid-19 will be charged for breaching isolation and visiting a central Auckland supermarket last night. Hipkins said the 32-year-old man, who arrived from India on July 3, left his managed isolation last night to go to the Countdown supermarket on Victoria Street ... <a title="New NZ case of ‘isolated’ covid patient visiting supermarket to be charged" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/new-nz-case-of-isolated-covid-patient-visiting-supermarket-to-be-charged/" aria-label="Read more about New NZ case of ‘isolated’ covid patient visiting supermarket to be charged">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
By RNZ News The opposition National Party leader says he has written to the party’s board asking them to remove MP Hamish Walker from the party after it was revealed he leaked private health information to New Zealand media. It was revealed yesterday that former National Party president Michelle Boag was responsible for leaking confidential ... <a title="‘There needs to be consequences’, says Muller over NZ MP’s covid leak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/there-needs-to-be-consequences-says-muller-over-nz-mps-covid-leak/" aria-label="Read more about ‘There needs to be consequences’, says Muller over NZ MP’s covid leak">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
COMMENT: By Nasya Bahfen in Melbourne Australia’s Victorian state government told returned travellers to quarantine for two weeks. Some broke the rules. It then paid for them to stay in hotels with security guards. Some of the guards couldn’t keep their dicks in their pants. Some of the returned travellers broke the rules. It then ... <a title="Nasya Bahfen: Some broke the rules and the covid enemy is taking over" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/nasya-bahfen-some-broke-the-rules-and-the-covid-enemy-is-taking-over/" aria-label="Read more about Nasya Bahfen: Some broke the rules and the covid enemy is taking over">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2020
By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News The State Services Minister says the government will do everything it can to track down who is responsible for a massive privacy breach relating to New Zealand’s active covid cases, and is not ruling out pursuing criminal charges. An investigation has been ordered into the breach, with ... <a title="Criminal charges possible if leak source identified in NZ covid privacy breach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/04/criminal-charges-possible-if-leak-source-identified-in-nz-covid-privacy-breach/" aria-label="Read more about Criminal charges possible if leak source identified in NZ covid privacy breach">Read more</a>
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July 1, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Fiji’s health minister is trying to allay concerns about the health of more than 160 soldiers who returned from the Middle East at the weekend. There has been community concern about their return from Sinai, particularly after it was revealed some of the locals who had been working with the troops have ... <a title="Fiji government tries to allay covid concerns as 160 troops return" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/01/fiji-government-tries-to-allay-covid-concerns-as-160-troops-return/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji government tries to allay covid concerns as 160 troops return">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
By Gordon Campbell, editor of Werewolf For most of the past week, any consumer of this country’s management of covid-19 would think New Zealand was actually Brazil, or Texas. The media language has been full of claims of “botches” at the border, and laxness and inexcusable errors that amounted to a “national disgrace.” Amid all ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/gordon-campbell-media-collusion-with-nationals-attack-lines-the-real-disgrace/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Papua New Guinea government is adamant no immigration laws, airport and covid-19 protocols – including national security – were breached when a Chinese businessman and his entourage were allowed in the country, reports the PNG Post-Courier. Deputy Pandemic Controller Dr Paison Dakulala said yesterday that, as stated by Prime Minister ... <a title="PNG claims ‘nothing sinister’, no broken protocols on Chinese flight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/26/png-claims-nothing-sinister-no-broken-protocols-on-chinese-flight/" aria-label="Read more about PNG claims ‘nothing sinister’, no broken protocols on Chinese flight">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2020
New Zealand’s coronavirus reality check last week is a “timely wake-up call” crucial to moving towards a transtasman travel bubble, says The New Zealand Herald. “There cannot be any complacency or missteps once our border controls are eased. The risks need be managed as well as possible,” said the country’s largest and most influential newspaper ... <a title="NZ’s coronavirus reality check a ‘timely wake-up call’, says Herald" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/22/nzs-coronavirus-reality-check-a-timely-wake-up-call-says-herald/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s coronavirus reality check a ‘timely wake-up call’, says Herald">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says while Australia and New Zealand work out their Trans-Tasman bubble, Fiji’s equal greater success against the Pacific nation into a position to take the lead among island states, reports FBC News. The Prime Minister revealed that Fiji was working on its own bubble – a “Bula ... <a title="Fiji works on its own ‘Bula Bubble’ in spite of Australian, NZ covid cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/21/fiji-works-on-its-own-bula-bubble-in-spite-of-australian-nz-covid-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji works on its own ‘Bula Bubble’ in spite of Australian, NZ covid cases">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Selwyn Manning, editor of EveningReport.nz It all boils down to this: The timeline of latest revelations suggests National Party MPs placed their want to GET their opponents – the Ardern Government – ahead of concerns that Covid-19 was potentially un-contained and again infecting New Zealanders. Is this a step too far for the ... <a title="Selwyn Manning: National ‘sat on’ vital covid-19 infection information before dropping bombshell" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/selwyn-manning-national-sat-on-vital-covid-19-infection-information-before-dropping-bombshell/" aria-label="Read more about Selwyn Manning: National ‘sat on’ vital covid-19 infection information before dropping bombshell">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2020
COMMENT: By Jane Patterson, RNZ News political editor Public confidence in New Zealand’s border controls has been shattered. The obvious anger of the prime minister when talking about the latest border bungle shows that goes right to the top. The fate of Health Minister David Clark and potentially Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield hang ... <a title="NZ’s covid-19 border botch-up: ‘Next few days will be crucial’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/18/nzs-covid-19-border-botch-up-next-few-days-will-be-crucial/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s covid-19 border botch-up: ‘Next few days will be crucial’">Read more</a>
