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March 14, 2022
RNZ News It is too early to say New Zealand has peaked, and declining tallies are no reason to celebrate as covid-19 is still rife in our communities with a record eight deaths reported in a day, an epidemiologist says. University of Auckland professor Rod Jackson said the coronavirus is occurring so frequently right now ... <a title="Declining NZ covid-19 case counts – but record deaths and more to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/14/declining-nz-covid-19-case-counts-but-record-deaths-and-more-to-come/" aria-label="Read more about Declining NZ covid-19 case counts – but record deaths and more to come">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2022
RNZ News A New Zealand protest flotilla has arrived outside the luxury Northland home of Russian oligarch Alexander Abramov. The eight vessels sailed to Helena Bay, north of Whangārei, early today to protest over the two-week-old Russian invasion of Ukraine facing the private estate owned by Abramov. Locals on kayaks and boats were expected to ... <a title="NZ war protest flotilla faces Russian oligarch’s luxury Northland estate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/13/nz-war-protest-flotilla-faces-russian-oligarchs-luxury-northland-estate/" aria-label="Read more about NZ war protest flotilla faces Russian oligarch’s luxury Northland estate">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2022
RNZ News The number of people with covid-19 who have died in New Zealand has now reached 105, with 14 deaths reported in the past two days. There are more than 206,000 active cases of covid-19 in the community, with another 18,699 new community cases reported today. The Ministry of Health announced seven further deaths ... <a title="NZ’s covid-19 death toll reaches 105, but it ‘could have been thousands’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/13/nzs-covid-19-death-toll-reaches-105-but-it-could-have-been-thousands/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s covid-19 death toll reaches 105, but it ‘could have been thousands’">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2022
RNZ Pacific Sincha Dimara, the news and current affairs manager at EMTV and one of Papua New Guinea’s most experienced journalists, has been sacked after weeks of being suspended. Dimara, who was one of the longest serving journalists in PNG and at EMTV for 30 years, was accused of “insubordination” after political pressure from a ... <a title="PNG’s EMTV sacks top journalist, recruits novices as elections loom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/13/pngs-emtv-sacks-top-journalist-recruits-novices-as-elections-loom/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s EMTV sacks top journalist, recruits novices as elections loom">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2022
RNZ News Auckland health authorities remain cautiously optimistic that the omicron outbreak may have peaked in the country’s biggest city, even though 601 of the 856 people in hospital with covid-19 are in Auckland. Clinical leads Dr Andrew Old, Dr Anthony Jordan and Dr Christine McIntosh at the Northern Region Health Coordination Centre gave details ... <a title="‘Remain vigilant’ warning from Auckland health leaders as record 7 covid deaths reported" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/12/remain-vigilant-warning-from-auckland-health-leaders-as-record-7-covid-deaths-reported/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Remain vigilant’ warning from Auckland health leaders as record 7 covid deaths reported">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2022
RNZ News New Zealand’s Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Royal NZ College of General Practitioners president Dr Samantha Murton gave a briefing today on the government’s response to the omicron outbreak as hospital cases continue to climb. The daily number of new community cases has dropped slightly today to 21,015 community cases, but ... <a title="‘It’s still going to be messy’ warning as NZ hospital covid cases climb" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/10/its-still-going-to-be-messy-warning-as-nz-hospital-covid-cases-climb/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It’s still going to be messy’ warning as NZ hospital covid cases climb">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2022
RNZ News The United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has raised its travel advisory warning on travel to New Zealand. The CDC updated its travel warning to “level four: very high” for travel to New Zealand due to covid-19 cases, of which today alone there was 23,894 new cases recorded. According to the ... <a title="US warns against travel to NZ due to rising level of covid-19 cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/09/us-warns-against-travel-to-nz-due-to-rising-level-of-covid-19-cases/" aria-label="Read more about US warns against travel to NZ due to rising level of covid-19 cases">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
RNZ News Twenty-eight of the anti-public health protesters who occupied New Zealand’s Parliament grounds over the past month have now tested positive for covid-19. In a statement, the Ministry of Health said 11 district health boards had reported covid-19 cases from the protest, including Wairarapa, Waitematā, Waikato, Taranaki, Southern, MidCentral, Tairawhiti, Hutt Valley, Counties Manukau, ... <a title="Covid-19: 28 Parliament protesters believed to have tested positive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/covid-19-28-parliament-protesters-believed-to-have-tested-positive/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19: 28 Parliament protesters believed to have tested positive">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2022
Three members of the United States Congress have introduced a resolution to recognise the legacy of US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. Congresswoman Katie Porter along with Senators Mazie Hirono and Ed Markey brought in the resolution to coincide with Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day on March 1. On 1 March 1954, the US exploded ... <a title="Bid for US Congress to acknowledge nuclear tests ‘darkest chapter’ in Marshalls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/07/bid-for-us-congress-to-acknowledge-nuclear-tests-darkest-chapter-in-marshalls/" aria-label="Read more about Bid for US Congress to acknowledge nuclear tests ‘darkest chapter’ in Marshalls">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2022
Opposition National MP Simon Bridges, a former party leader, and backbench Labour MP Anahila Kanongataá-Suisuiki have tested positive for covid-19 with a record 696 cases in hospital. Bridges is National’s spokesperson for finance and infrastructure. Kanongataá-Suisuiki said in a Facebook post that she had tested positive on a day 3 test of home isolation, after ... <a title="National MP Simon Bridges tests covid-19 positive – record 696 in NZ hospitals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/07/national-mp-simon-bridges-tests-covid-19-positive-record-696-in-nz-hospitals/" aria-label="Read more about National MP Simon Bridges tests covid-19 positive – record 696 in NZ hospitals">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2022
The United Nations chief scientific agency on climate change released its latest report on Monday. The IPCC Working Group II report on climate impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability says man-made climate change is causing unprecedented damage to the natural environment and the livelihoods of billions of people. It also says global warming is set to rise ... <a title="Pacific Climate Warrior on what the latest IPCC report means for the region" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/07/pacific-climate-warrior-on-what-the-latest-ipcc-report-means-for-the-region/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Climate Warrior on what the latest IPCC report means for the region">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2022
SPECIAL REPORT: By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent Micronitor News and Printing Company founder Joe Murphy moved the goal posts of freedom of press and freedom of expression in the Marshall Islands, a country that had virtually no tradition of either, by establishing an independent newspaper that today ... <a title="No money, little experience, but Marshall Islands media icon leaves lasting legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/07/no-money-little-experience-but-marshall-islands-media-icon-leaves-lasting-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about No money, little experience, but Marshall Islands media icon leaves lasting legacy">Read more</a>
