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[ad_1] NZ coronavirus is a new daily podcast, hosted by Stuff‘s Adam Dudding and Eugene Bingham, looking at the Covid-19 pandemic from a Kiwi perspective. In today’s episode: Dr Ayesha Verrall was the scientist called in to the Ministry of Health to make a critical audit of the country’s contact-tracing …

[ad_1] Michael Bradley / Things Auckland Region Women’s Correctional Center in Wiri, South Auckland. A woman returned a positive test for coronavirus just one day after her release from an Auckland prison. The woman received her positive Covid-19 result on Saturday after she was rescued on Friday and tested the …

[ad_1] Michael Bradley / Things Auckland Region Women’s Correctional Center in Wiri, South Auckland. A woman returned a positive test for coronavirus just one day after her release from an Auckland prison. The woman received her positive Covid-19 result on Saturday after she was rescued on Friday and tested the …

[ad_1] Shopping malls, cafes and restaurants reopen from Thursday and schools resume next Monday, but bars must wait 10 days as the country goes to alert level 2 in 48 hours. On Thursday, retail stores, shopping malls, cafes, restaurants, movie theaters, and other public spaces may reopen. They all require …

[ad_1] “There go the people. I must follow them, because I am their leader” – attributed to Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin and Mahatma Gandhi It may appear that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had the option to move to level 2 but not her. As demonstrated on Auckland’s waterfront and Sumner Beach …

[ad_1] Travelers going abroad are forced to burst their bubble due to the high demand for international flights after closing. A passenger on an Air New Zealand flight to Los Angeles was surprised to discover that he had been sitting next to a stranger. The entire plane was full and …

[ad_1] A third of Kiwis felt that the blockade did not go far enough, meaning that more stringent measures could have been implemented below level 4 if necessary. This was in accordance with the first weekly monitoring report of the blockade that was used to inform the Cabinet of decisions …

[ad_1] The Government has escalated a stoush with National leader Simon Bridges over the legal advice behind the coronavirus lockdown, promising to refer him to a high-powered parliamentary committee. Attorney-General David Parker on Friday responded to an attempt by Bridges, as chair of the Epidemic Response Select Committee, to summons …

[ad_1] Close contacts of people infected with Covid are now monitored daily to ensure compliance and to see if they have developed any symptoms, says Health Minister David Clark. But an app to supplement contact tracking work was still being worked on, and it hasn’t been released for voluntary registration …

[ad_1] 7:04 am, May 9, 2020 The re-elected President of World Rugby, Sir Bill Beaumont, and his newly elected board have to work hard for them. The game of rugby globally is changing, in part due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, however the current global health crisis should …