[ad_1] The masks will be mandatory for everyone traveling on domestic flights and for Auckland residents using public transport from Thursday. Until then, New Zealanders are urged to act as if face coverings are already mandatory despite the mystery that has emerged about the source of the latest Covid-19 community …
Read More »Bereaved family receives trade exemption to enter New Zealand
[ad_1] This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and republished with permission. A British family of sailors was allowed in and begged to come to New Zealand after their son’s death. Barbara Genda, Harry Jarman and their two children were sailing the world when tragedy struck in Tahiti, with the …
Read More »Little Penang Customer Says He Was Told It Would Cost $ 300 To Get A Covid-19 Test
[ad_1] A customer who dined at a Wellington restaurant around the time a person with Covid-19 ate there says he was told it would cost $ 300 for a coronavirus test, and that was his fourth failed attempt to get tested. The man, who asked not to be identified, said …
Read More »Covid-19: Nurses Union Says MIQ Staff Will Be ‘Forced’ To Refuse Work For Inaction
[ad_1] The nurses union is “strongly” considering detaining its staff working in managed isolation and quarantine facilities if it is not safe. The New Zealand Nurses Organization (NZNO) said it remained “very concerned” about the lack of action by district health boards, the Ministry of Health and MBIE to protect …
Read More »Covid-19: labor laws are not optional, they keep us safe from coronavirus
[ad_1] OPINION: Amid the public outcry surrounding the latest Covid-19 community case and subsequent precautions taken in our largest city, many abuses have been directed against the person who was reportedly forced to come to work ill and his employer. This is not a constructive response, but people are understandably …
Read More »More than 100 houses were left uninhabitable after the Napier floods
[ad_1] The state of emergency was lifted Friday night, but the effects of Napier’s severe flooding will continue to be felt for months to come. More than 100 homes were left uninhabitable after the one-in-250-year flood in Napier this week. By Friday afternoon, 102 homes had been marked as uninhabitable …
Read More »Yorkshire Ripper Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe Dies At 74
[ad_1] The British serial killer known as the “Yorkshire Ripper”, a man who instilled terror and fear in northern England in the 1970s, died on Friday (local time) at a hospital there. He was 74 years old. Peter Sutcliffe, a grave digger, was serving simultaneous life sentences for killing 13 …
Read More »Farming Festival Draws South Island’s Largest Post-Covid Crowd to West Coast
[ad_1] Supplied The Topp Twins perform at Agfest West Coast 2020 in Greymouth. A West Coast agricultural festival kicked off Friday with an expected turnout of 20,000, the largest post-Covid mass gathering on the South Island. The event was supposed to take place in March, but had to be canceled …
Read More »Covid 19 coronavirus: new case linked to the Defense cluster, reopening of the CBD, pending masking order
[ad_1] New Zealand will remain at alert level 1 and the Auckland CBD will reopen after the source of the latest community case of Covid-19 is identified. The latest case, an AUT student in her 20s, had been genomically linked to the Defense worker who was infected in a quarantine …
Read More »British family whose son died at sea praises Jacinda Ardern for reversing the decision to enter New Zealand
[ad_1] New Zealand|Politics November 13, 2020 05:40 am3 minutes to read The video will play in Play now Don’t play automatically Never auto game Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has requested a review of a failed New Zealand maritime border waiver application from a UK family whose son died at sea. …
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