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[ad_1] Twelve months ago, emergency services came together as a single unit to help those caught in the Whakaari eruption. They share some of their stories from that fateful day. An emergency call shortly after 2.11pm changed everything. “There has been a volcanic eruption on White Island. There are about …

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[ad_1] New Zealand|Politics Dec 7, 2020, 12:51 PM3 minutes to read The video will play in Play now Don’t play automatically Never auto game The number of ongoing COVID-19 media briefings will be reduced to four per week. There is a new case of COVID-19 in isolation managed today. There …

[ad_1] The Health Ministry is reducing the frequency of its regular Covid-19 updates to four times a week. The news comes as the ministry announced a new Covid-19 case in New Zealand on Monday, in isolation. The Covid-19 updates, which had been released every day at 1 pm, will now …

[ad_1] This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and republished with permission. Two sailors who arrived in Fiji on a freighter from Tonga last week tested positive for Covid-19. The Health Ministry said the ship arrived in Lautoka on December 2 to deliver cargo and then headed to Suva. Health …

[ad_1] China’s provincial governments are placing orders for domestically-made experimental coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they can reach the country’s 1.4 billion people. Developers are speeding up final testing, China’s foreign minister said during a United Nations meeting last week, …

[ad_1] Warning: this story contains some distressing details. The Whakaari / White Island eruption sparked a massive health response across the country, from ambulance officers on the ground to the best burn surgeons in the country. Geoff and Lillani Hopkins helped rescue injured tourists from Whakaari. This photograph was taken …

[ad_1] Sarfaraz Ahmed, Babar Azam, Mohammad Hafeez, and Shadab Khan from Pakistan. Photo / Getty Images. Pakistan’s cricket team could leave managed isolation tomorrow, if the Health Ministry approves. New Zealand Cricket said today that the Pakistan team’s Covid-19 tests on the 12th have come back negative. Furthermore, the squad …

[ad_1] Commentary The best way to get people to commit to change is to be absolutely clear about the climate emergency: what goals do we have to meet; How can we do it; And how urgent it is, says Rod Oram Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave her most powerful depiction …

[ad_1] 123rf A woman who had three frozen embryos about to expire asked for them to be returned. (File photo) Fertility Associates has been ordered to apologize to a woman and her husband after a clinic disposed of the embryos she wanted to collect and take to her mother’s grave. …