[ad_1] The University of Auckland says that all exams scheduled for Friday at the city center campuses will be taken online. The decision affects all exams at the City, Grafton, Newmarket and Epsom sites. The scheduled start times remained the same, but the online exams would last an additional 30 …
Read More »Joe Biden has announced the Covid task force to guide him through the crisis, but there are many challenges ahead.
[ad_1] ANALYSIS: Addressing the health, economic and social crises triggered by the coronavirus pandemic is the first order of business for US President-elect Joe Biden and his transition team. Biden announced this week that his bipartisan coronavirus task force will begin work immediately and will continue after he is sworn …
Read More »Old school buildings will be demolished, pupil prints will be preserved
[ad_1] Gore District Council Gore District Council Administration Officer Neil Mair outside the old school hall, which will be demolished. The Gore district council agreed to urgently demolish two old buildings due to significant vandalism and potential public health risks from asbestos. But the engravings of former students of the …
Read More »Banks are moving quickly to reestablish LVR restrictions now that they have the RBNZ signal. The first to announce them is ASB heavyweight, and they are moving “immediately”
[ad_1] Knowing that the Reserve Bank is moving to reestablish LVRs makes major banks willing to adapt. The first bank to announce that it will do so is ASB. He says he is moving immediately to increase the minimum deposit required from investors in the wake of the Reserve Bank’s …
Read More »Windies cricketers clear to leave isolation
[ad_1] The team is due to leave the managed isolation in Christchurch tomorrow and travel to Queenstown, where it will play two games against New Zealand A before the first of three T20 games against Black Caps. The West Indies were banned from training in the final days of their …
Read More »Father and son who stayed longer in prison after applying for refugee status
[ad_1] When immigration officers arrived at Sukhwinder Singh’s home in Manukau on October 23, they were told that he was not there. It was not true. Agents found the 63-year-old Indian who was staying at home hiding in a drawer under his bed. Singh and his son Parminder claimed refugee …
Read More »Covid 19 coronavirus: Biden adviser urges closure ‘like New Zealand and Australia’
[ad_1] World November 12, 2020 02:00 am3 minutes to read Dr Michael Osterholm said that a national US lockdown may be the best way to limit deaths and new coronavirus infections until a vaccine arrives. Photo / Getty Images A coronavirus adviser to Joe Biden has encouraged the president-elect to …
Read More »Covid 19 coronavirus: Air Commodore Darryn Webb denies managed isolation of guests mixed with tenants linked to a positive case
[ad_1] The AZ Collection store on High Street, where a worker tested positive for Covid-19. Photo / Dean Purcell. Tenants of a city apartment block where a person tested positive for Covid-19 say residents previously mixed in with people staying at a neighboring managed isolation hotel after a fire alarm …
Read More »Election in the US: Democrats and Republicans prepare for the Georgia elections that will shape the first years of the presidency of Joe Biden
[ad_1] Jon Ossoff took the stage in Columbus and looked out into a parking lot full of cars, supporters honking their horns in approval as he declared that “change has come to Georgia.” Hours earlier, Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler stepped up to a microphone in suburban Atlanta and addressed hundreds …
Read More »Auckland community case lives next door to managed isolation hotel
[ad_1] The Auckland Covid-19 community case announced today is that of a person living next to a managed seclusion hotel. The Grand Millennium Hotel, which is being used as a managed isolation facility, in Auckland CBD. Photo: RNZ / Dan Cook Health officials have now completed a detailed interview with …
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