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March 16, 2020
By RNZ News Some travellers trying to beat the New Zealand deadline early today for self-isolations to prevent the Covid-19 coronavirus spreading have been turned away by airlines that are stretched to capacity. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Saturday that from midnight Sunday, all passengers arriving from overseas, except those from Pacific Island countries, ... <a title="Some travellers trying to beat NZ’s coronavirus deadline turned away" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/16/some-travellers-trying-to-beat-nzs-coronavirus-deadline-turned-away/" aria-label="Read more about Some travellers trying to beat NZ’s coronavirus deadline turned away">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2020
The Philippines Department of Health (DOH) has confirmed 29 new cases of the Covid-19 novel coronavirus in the country today – bringing the total number of cases to 140 – as Metro Manila went into lockdown for one month. The DOH also announced that three more patients have died from the virus. The death toll ... <a title="Philippines coronavirus rise to 140, with 11 deaths – Manila in lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/16/philippines-coronavirus-rise-to-140-with-11-deaths-manila-in-lockdown/" aria-label="Read more about Philippines coronavirus rise to 140, with 11 deaths – Manila in lockdown">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced late today wide-ranging travel restrictions which mean as of midnight tomorrow anyone coming into New Zealand will have to self-isolate for 14 days. The only exemption is for people coming from the Pacific islands, but New Zealanders returning from overseas will not be exempt. The measures will ... <a title="New travel curbs require almost everyone entering NZ to self-isolate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/new-travel-curbs-require-almost-everyone-entering-nz-to-self-isolate/" aria-label="Read more about New travel curbs require almost everyone entering NZ to self-isolate">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
French Polynesia has recorded the first coronavirus case in the Pacific Islands. President Edouard Fritch said the carrier was one of French Polynesia’s members of the French National Assembly, Maina Sage, who returned from Paris at the weekend. She was at home in self-isolation, Fritch said. Reports say Sage had met the French Culture Minister ... <a title="French Polynesia records Pacific’s first coronavirus case with Paris lawmaker" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/french-polynesia-records-pacifics-first-coronavirus-case-with-paris-lawmaker/" aria-label="Read more about French Polynesia records Pacific’s first coronavirus case with Paris lawmaker">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Scott Waide in Port Moresby There is no other way to say this to the government of Papua New Guinea. Prime Minister James Marape, you need to issue the orders to shut down our borders starting with our international airports. While every other country is initiating lockdowns over the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, Papua ... <a title="Coronavirus: We need to shut down PNG borders and prepare our people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/14/coronavirus-we-need-to-shut-down-png-borders-and-prepare-our-people/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus: We need to shut down PNG borders and prepare our people">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2020
By Sela Jane Hopgood of RNZ Pacific The cancellation of this year’s New Zealand Pasifika Festival in Auckland because of coronavirus fears is expected to be a huge financial blow for some stallholders. Dutchie Low, from Hawaiian Pineapple Hut, said he found out about the cancellation on Facebook, which was then followed by a few ... <a title="NZ’s canned Pasifika Festival a financial blow for stallholders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/13/nzs-canned-pasifika-festival-a-financial-blow-for-stallholders/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s canned Pasifika Festival a financial blow for stallholders">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2020
By Sofia Tomacruz in Manila Several cabinet members of the Duterte government are placing themselves under quarantine in an effort to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus Covid-19, while serving as the country’s top officials closest to President Rodrigo Duterte. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III last night became the first cabinet official to announce ... <a title="Duterte cabinet members in self-quarantine amid coronavirus fears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/12/duterte-cabinet-members-in-self-quarantine-amid-coronavirus-fears/" aria-label="Read more about Duterte cabinet members in self-quarantine amid coronavirus fears">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2020
By Ale Asa in Porgera Eleven people – including three children – have been massacred when a fight between two warring tribes from Tari spilled into the Porgera Valley in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Three women and five men from Enga were also killed when the O Kiru and Miape tribes resumed fighting, this ... <a title="Three PNG children die among 11 killed in Porgera massacre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/12/three-png-children-die-among-11-killed-in-porgera-massacre/" aria-label="Read more about Three PNG children die among 11 killed in Porgera massacre">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2020
By Marchio Irfan Gorbiano in Jakarta Indonesia has reported its first death from the Covid-19 coronavirus today, a 53-year-old woman and foreign citizen identified as Case 25. The Health Ministry’s disease control and prevention director-general Achmad Yurianto said Case 25 died about 2 am on Wednesday after nearly three days of treatment. “The patient was ... <a title="Indonesia reports first death – a foreigner – from Covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/11/indonesia-reports-first-death-a-foreigner-from-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia reports first death – a foreigner – from Covid-19">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2020
By Dr Crispin Maslog in Manila As fake news on Covid-19 spreads faster than the virus, scientists call for a halt to the “infodemic”. As China admits that the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) is now the worst public health crisis that the country has faced since its founding, a group of scientists has sent out a ... <a title="Scientists call for media sobriety amid Covid-19 fake news ‘infodemic’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/11/scientists-call-for-media-sobriety-amid-covid-19-fake-news-infodemic/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists call for media sobriety amid Covid-19 fake news ‘infodemic’">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2020
By Paul Spoonley of Massey University In the hours after the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15 last year, I wrote that I hoped New Zealand would finally stop believing it was immune to far-right extremist violence. A year on, I’m not sure enough has changed. I have researched far-right extremism for decades – and ... <a title="Far-right extremists still threaten NZ, a year on from Christchurch attacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/11/far-right-extremists-still-threaten-nz-a-year-on-from-christchurch-attacks/" aria-label="Read more about Far-right extremists still threaten NZ, a year on from Christchurch attacks">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2020
FBC News reports on the airports economic setbacks. By Ritika Pratap in Suva Fiji Airports will defer future infrastructure projects as a result of financial set-backs caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus. In response to a global slow-down in travel and reduced flights, chief executive Faiz Khan said almost all costs at airports were fixed, and ... <a title="Fiji Airports face major financial disaster over Covid-19, warns chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/11/fiji-airports-face-major-financial-disaster-over-covid-19-warns-chief/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Airports face major financial disaster over Covid-19, warns chief">Read more</a>
