Health

[ad_1] Spark will remove data caps and create a new healthcare platform for the next three years. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon The initiatives were part of the telecommunications company’s speech to investors, as it described its new growth strategy. It said it would remove limits on its wireless broadband …

[ad_1] Operators of a trawler that sank off the coast of Canterbury with the loss of the three fishermen on board today were ordered to pay surviving relatives more than $ 700,000. The 90-ton, 16-meter fishing vessel Jubilee sank after sending a distress signal in the early hours of October …

[ad_1] A student at Chapel Downs Primary School in South Auckland tested positive for Covid-19, forcing the school to close for the remainder of the week. Your playlist will load after this ad. The coronavirus infection has forced the school to close for the rest of the week. Source: 1 …

[ad_1] Whether young people would use more cannabis was a hot topic during tonight’s debate in the October 17 referendum to legalize recreational cannabis. Police Association President Chris Cahill said education was key to keeping young people away from cannabis, and had previously worked to make methamphetamine a “dirty drug” …

[ad_1] Meghan Lawrence / Stuff Chapel Downs Elementary School has been closed through Monday. A pupil at a South Auckland primary school tested positive for coronavirus. The Covid-19 case has closed Chapel Downs Elementary School in Flat Bush. A message sent to the school community said the boy and three …

[ad_1] A staff member at the University of Otago wants an apology from senior leadership for the way a proposal to impose limits on preferential pathways to medical school has been addressed. The university has been criticized for suggesting a limit of 56 Maori students a year across its Maori …

[ad_1] Meghan Lawrence / Stuff Chapel Downs Elementary School has been closed through Monday. A pupil at a South Auckland primary school tested positive for coronavirus. The Covid-19 case has closed Chapel Downs Elementary School in Flat Bush. A message sent to the school community said the boy and three …

[ad_1] A former Far North Māori fund trustee who was jailed for a $ 1 million fraud he perpetrated with his sister has been denied a Supreme Court appeal for “cultural embarrassment”. Stephen Henare and Margaret Dixon practically bled the Parengarenga 3G (P3G) Trust to pay for the game and …

[ad_1] National Party Leader Judith Collins says New Zealand is at risk of losing kiwis to Australia as its immediate economic impact from Covid-19 has been less. The Treasury opened government books ahead of Wednesday’s elections, estimating a 16% contraction in the economy in the three months to June, compared …

[ad_1] Two reports have exposed serious shortcomings in our key vaccination campaigns. Today, a report on last year’s measles outbreak in February acknowledged in detail the frustrations of medical staff and patients. In February Auckland Regional Public Health was found to be “understaffed” and “lacking training in outbreak management”. In …