Health

[ad_1] The World Health Organization has issued a stern warning for countries that come out of lockdown too soon. Eight months after the coronavirus pandemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has recognized people’s desire for normalcy to return. At a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday, the director-general said the …

[ad_1] OPINION: Imagine if the Bay of Plenty region had 465 cases of Covid-19. That is what is happening to one of our Pacific neighbors after the country became the first in the Pacific region to reopen to tourism. French Polynesia, with roughly the population of the Bay of Plenty …

[ad_1] Residents of the Southland town of Mataura have their bags packed ready for evacuation in case potentially lethal ammonia gas is released from the toxic waste stored there. The old paper mill in Mataura, Southland. Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King A nearby fire on Monday was the third incident …

[ad_1] Hollywood stars Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons had to live in the slums with the hoi polloi in a five-star hotel in Auckland after requests to isolate themselves on a secluded rural property were rejected. That requested exception, which was presented as a decisive agreement to bring the powerful …

[ad_1] This 0800 number connects those who have received negative test results with the Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS). Callers can speak to an operator if the wrong information has been sent to them. ACT Party leader David Seymour says the fact that ARPHS has such messages is “alarming” …

[ad_1] The children went back to school and offices reopened in Auckland on Monday after authorities lifted the lockdown on New Zealand’s largest city that was imposed to contain a surge in coronavirus cases in early August. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she was confident the outbreak was under control, …

[ad_1] A former Auckland pier says he narrowly avoided the same fate as a father of seven who was crushed to death under a container on Sunday. Saul Parks is one of two former Ports of Auckland workers who spoke after the man’s death on a container ship around 2 …

[ad_1] The newlyweds at the center of a Covid-19 cluster that became one of the largest in New Zealand had just begun their married life when they discovered that one of their guests had tested positive for the virus. Betty and Manoli Tzanoudakis tied the knot at Bluff’s Oyster Cove …

[ad_1] Mortgage rates could fall below 2 percent over the next year, economists say, as the world reacts to the fallout from Covid-19. The official cash rate is on hold at 0.25 percent through March, but it is increasingly expected that it could fall into negative territory by April. ASB …

[ad_1] Lockdown-weary Victorians have caught a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel, without any illumination on when it will happen. The Australian state government has announced that its “reopening roadmap” – the plan to ease Melbourne’s stage four coronavirus restrictions and Victoria stage three measures – …