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[ad_1] New Zealanders abroad are scrambling to get home to their dying loved ones, and attacking the government’s slow shift to emergency managed isolation applications. Photo: RNZ / Liu Chen The system offers a lifeline to people who need to return home within seven days, but some wait much longer …

[ad_1] Ted S. Warren / AP The 69-year-old was traveling from Orlando to Los Angeles when he fell ill. The plane was diverted to New Orleans, where he died. (File photo) A United Airlines passenger in the United States who fell ill on a flight from Orlando to Los Angeles …

[ad_1] Nearly 400,000 users of the Health Ministry’s Covid-19 app have activated Bluetooth tracking, the ministry says. Earlier this month, the ministry enhanced its NZ Covid Tracer app using technology created by Apple and Google to digitally record a user’s “anonymous handshake” with people they come in contact with. People …

[ad_1] The District Board of Health does not tolerate violence or verbal threats to staff at Hawke’s Bay Hospital in Hastings. Photo / Warren Buckland Abuse by hospital staff has prompted the Hawke’s Bay District Board of Health to increase its security presence and install more CCTV cameras. DHB Executive …

[ad_1] Braden Fastier / Stuff The Jayoma family, father Rommel, Lesly, 10, and mother Cris received the news that Lesley’s special needs student visa was approved after he faced deportation. The family of a 10-year-old girl facing deportation has been told that she can stay in New Zealand this Christmas …

[ad_1] Antarctica can no longer claim to be the only coronavirus-free continent after 36 Chileans tested positive for Covid-19. Spanish-language media reported that up to 36 people connected to the Chilean Army base, General Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme, tested positive for the virus on Monday. The research station, known colloquially as …

[ad_1] The man convicted of murdering two Ashburton Work and Income workers has had his appeal against his conviction and sentence dismissed. Russell John Tully Photo: POOL / Dean Kozanic Russell John Tully, was convicted in 2016 of the fatal shooting of Peggy Noble and Leigh Cleveland, at the Ashburton …

[ad_1] Taiwan has announced its first case of local transmission of Covid-19 in eight months. Photo / NIAID-RML The first locally transmitted Covid-19 case in eight months was reported in Taiwan. The new case is related to a New Zealand pilot diagnosed with Covid-19 on Sunday, the Financial Times reported. …

[ad_1] Antarctica can no longer claim to be the only coronavirus-free continent after 36 Chileans tested positive for Covid-19. Two Chilean marines rest at the Chilean military base Presidente Eduardo Frei, on King George Island, Antarctica, on March 13, 2014. Photo: AFP / Vanderlei Almeida Spanish-language media reported that up …

[ad_1] Paula Bronstein / Getty Images Taiwanese students have their temperature checked when they enter Taipei American School in March. The country has been one of the success stories of the Covid pandemic, without having reported a community case since April. Taiwan has reported its first community case of Covid-19 …