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April 7, 2020
New Zealand has 54 new confirmed and probable cases of Covid-19, bringing the total number of cases to 1160, the Health Ministry has confirmed. Today’s new figure is down from the 67 new cases reported yesterday. With 65 people recovering in the past day, today is also the first day that recoveries have exceeded new ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 13: Number of new cases drops to 54 in one day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/nz-lockdown-day-13-number-of-new-cases-drops-to-54-in-one-day/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 13: Number of new cases drops to 54 in one day">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Sally Young of the University of Melbourne Many newspapers betrayed their readers during the Great Depression and now some are doing so again during the coronavirus pandemic. During the Depression, Australia’s major daily newspapers loudly resisted calls for economic stimulus to revive the economy. Even the tabloids – whose working class audiences were ... <a title="During the Great Depression, many newspapers betrayed their readers. It’s happening again with coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/during-the-great-depression-many-newspapers-betrayed-their-readers-its-happening-again-with-coronavirus/" aria-label="Read more about During the Great Depression, many newspapers betrayed their readers. It’s happening again with coronavirus">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand’s Health Minister David Clark has revealed that he took a trip to the beach during the alert level 4 lockdown and has offered to resign. Dr Clark said he drove his family 20km from his house in Dunedin to Doctor’s Point Beach for a walk during the first weekend of ... <a title="NZ Health Minister offers to resign over beach trip in virus lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/nz-health-minister-offers-to-resign-over-beach-trip-in-virus-lockdown/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Health Minister offers to resign over beach trip in virus lockdown">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern does not want New Zealand to be at level four for “a minute longer than needed”, but says there is no plan to lift it earlier than the planned four weeks. As New Zealand approaches the halfway point of the four-week lockdown, Ardern said today the country needed ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 12: Nation needs to ‘stay the course’, says PM Ardern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/nz-lockdown-day-12-nation-needs-to-stay-the-course-says-pm-ardern/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 12: Nation needs to ‘stay the course’, says PM Ardern">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Pacific Media Watch From the second week of lockdown in New Zealand, to Covid-19 in the Pacific and an “authoritarianism creep” by governments in the Asia-Pacific region provided a fast-changing landscape on the Pacific Media Centre’s Southern Cross radio programme on 95bFM today. New Zealand had crossed the 1000-case threshold on Sunday with 89 new ... <a title="Southern Cross covers host of issues in fast-moving Covid-19 time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/southern-cross-covers-host-of-issues-in-fast-moving-covid-19-time/" aria-label="Read more about Southern Cross covers host of issues in fast-moving Covid-19 time">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. As New Zealand edges toward the third week of lockdown having passed 1000 cases threshold (1039) with 89 new cases, 12 clusters and one death on day 11 the bigger angst during the ... <a title="NZ passes 1000 cases threshold, but Bauer collapse main talking point" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/nz-passes-1000-cases-threshold-but-bauer-collapse-main-talking-point/" aria-label="Read more about NZ passes 1000 cases threshold, but Bauer collapse main talking point">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Authorities are cracking down to try and stop the spread of the coronavirus in Fiji, which already has 12 cases, reports TVNZ One News. Police have arrested more than 240 people in the last two days for breaching curfew. “This level of lawlessness is irresponsible, un-Fijian and not just plain stupid,” Fijian ... <a title="‘Stay at home’ – sweeping virus curfew arrests as Fiji braces for TC Harold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/stay-at-home-sweeping-virus-curfew-arrests-as-fiji-braces-for-tc-harold/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Stay at home’ – sweeping virus curfew arrests as Fiji braces for TC Harold">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2020
By Jane Patterson, political editor of RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it’s too early to claim success against the spread of Covid-19 but 11 days into lockdown, New Zealand has made a good start. At today’s media briefing, Ardern was reluctant to draw too many conclusions from the number of new positive tests ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 11: Nation has ‘made a good start’, says PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/05/nz-lockdown-day-11-nation-has-made-a-good-start-says-pm/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 11: Nation has ‘made a good start’, says PM">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2020
By Stefan Armbruster of SBS News in Brisbane Refugees and asylum seekers in Brisbane have begun daily protests urging for their release after doctors and human rights lawyers flagged fears that a repurposed hotel could become a coronavirus infection hotspot. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the UN Human Rights Commissioner this week issued a ... <a title="Refugees, asylum seekers flag fears over possible Brisbane virus hotspot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/05/refugees-asylum-seekers-flag-fears-over-possible-brisbane-virus-hotspot/" aria-label="Read more about Refugees, asylum seekers flag fears over possible Brisbane virus hotspot">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2020
By RNZ Pacific The number of people with Covid-19 in the Pacific continues to climb with French Polynesia hitting 40 cases, Guam now over 90 and the US state of Hawai’i suffering its third coronavirus death. In the past day, another person tested positive for Covid-19 in French Polynesia. However the number of carriers in ... <a title="Pacific coronavirus: Cases rise in Tahiti, Guam and Hawai’i" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/05/pacific-coronavirus-cases-rise-in-tahiti-guam-and-hawaii/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific coronavirus: Cases rise in Tahiti, Guam and Hawai’i">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie A rather beautiful Guåhan legend is rather poignant in these stressed pandemic times. It is one about survival and cooperation. In ancient times, goes the story, a giant fish was eating great chunks out of this western Pacific island. The men used muscle and might with spears and slings ... <a title="Creeping authoritarianism in Pacific not the answer to virus pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/04/creeping-authoritarianism-in-pacific-not-the-answer-to-virus-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Creeping authoritarianism in Pacific not the answer to virus pandemic">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Haiqing Yu of RMIT University and Michael Keane of Curtin University China has gradually emerged out of its shadow of despair as the epicentre where the coronavirus pandemic started. Now, there is face saving required – as well as agenda-setting in the global power play. China played a decisive role in combating the ... <a title="Masking power in the age of contagion: China’s two faces over coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/04/masking-power-in-the-age-of-contagion-chinas-two-faces-over-coronavirus/" aria-label="Read more about Masking power in the age of contagion: China’s two faces over coronavirus">Read more</a>
