[ad_1] The Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) issued a public health advisory following a massive fire at a Christchurch pizza factory overnight. The teams were called to the Romano’s Food Group pizza factory, which makes pizza and supermarket brand bases, in the suburb of Hillsborough at 1.13 a.m. Tuesday. At …
Read More »Man completes 654km in one week to raise mental health awareness despite foot injury
[ad_1] A man has completed his 654-kilometer run, one kilometer for every New Zealander who died by suicide in the year to June 2020, despite sustaining a possible fracture a third of the way. Supporters gathered in Auckland Domain on Monday to watch 22-year-old Matt Fenn successfully complete the challenge. …
Read More »Christchurch companies and global giants form stadium consortium
[ad_1] Local companies have joined the companies behind the world’s tallest skyscraper and Yankee Stadium in a consortium chosen to build the new $ 473 million Canterbury Stadium. The successful bidding for the stadium project came from a group that included infrastructure builders Fulton Hogan, construction company Southbase, architects Warren …
Read More »Maternal suicide announcement ordered off the air after complaints warning it would ‘cost lives’
[ad_1] MOTHERS MATTER / Supplied A Mothers Matter ad has been criticized as dangerous, and the Mental Health Foundation said it could cost lives. The Advertising Standards Authority has ordered that an advertisement showing maternal suicide and alcoholism be taken off the air. Lobbyist Mothers Matter launched an advertising campaign …
Read More »Covid-19 vaccines: DHB criticized Health Ministry for launch delays, warns of burgeoning conspiracy theories
[ad_1] A district health board blamed the Health Ministry for failures and delays in launching the Covid-19 vaccine, claiming it had “created space” for anti-vaccines and conspiracy theories to take hold. A document sent to the Hawke’s Bay District Board of Health on Tuesday, titled “ March 2021 Vaccination and …
Read More »Covid-19: Eleven new cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation, 10 from the same flight
[ad_1] There are 11 new cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation. The Health Ministry also said that a person who had recently left the Grand Mercure MIQ facility tested positive, which is being classified as a historic case. Of the 11 new cases, one traveled to New Zealand from Italy …
Read More »Thousands of people flood the center of the city of Wellington for the return of CubaDupa
[ad_1] ROSA WOODS / Things Thousands of people filled Cuba Street as an annual festival that CubaDupa returned after two years of hiccups. Walking down Cuba St during New Zealand’s biggest street festival, it’s hard to imagine that just a year ago, the city was on lockdown. Or imagine that …
Read More »The real number of deaths from Covid-19 in Mexico is now more than 321,000, 60% more than the official figures
[ad_1] World March 28, 2021 04:41 am3 minutes to read Workers with full protective equipment amid the new coronavirus pandemic, lowered a coffin last year to a grave in an area of the San Rafael municipal cemetery reserved for people who died from Covid in Mexico. Photo / AP The …
Read More »Covid 19 coronavirus: a new case in managed isolation, no new community cases
[ad_1] There are no new cases from the Covid community and one new case in managed isolation. There are 75 active cases in New Zealand. The new case at MIQ came from Ireland via Qatar and tested positive on the 8th of his stay. The Health Ministry said its investigation …
Read More »Coronavirus Covid-19: Daily deaths in Brazil approach 4000
[ad_1] The body of a COVID-19 victim lies in a body bag in the ICU of the Sao José municipal hospital in Duque de Caxias, Brazil. Photo / AP Brazil currently accounts for a quarter of daily COVID-19 deaths worldwide, far more than any other nation, and health experts warn …
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