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New Zealand’s border has reopened to Australian citizens and permanent residents with thousands flying into the country today as New Zealanders await the Government’s traffic light setting announcement later today. Australian citizens and permanent residents travelling from anywhere in the world can enter New Zealand from today without having to self-isolate. Tourism Minister Stuart Nash said New Zealand can expect
» Read moreHealth officials are set to release the latest confirmed case numbers of New Zealand’s Omicron variant outbreak – as the country’s death toll nears 500. The Ministry of Health will release case numbers and the number of any further deaths in the past 24 hours at 1pm. Yesterday they confirmed a further 10 Covid-related deaths – taking the reported death
» Read moreChina’s government has responded to a spike in coronavirus infections by shutting down its southern business centre of Shenzhen, a city of 17.5 million people, and restricted access to Shanghai by suspending bus services. Everyone in Shenzhen, a finance and technology centre that abuts Hong Kong, will undergo three rounds of testing after 60 new cases were reported on Sunday.
» Read moreThere are 15,161 new community cases of Covid-19 today, 618 people are in hospital and one person has died with Covid. The Ministry of Health said the person died at Auckland Hospital. “The person had unrelated medical conditions and had tested positive for Covid-19.” Of the 618 people in hospital, 10 are in intensive care. The ministry said the decrease
» Read morePolice resisted calls for weeks to move in on the unlawful occupation of Parliament, fearing unprecedented violence should they confront the protesters causing havoc in Wellington. On Wednesday, the 23rd day of the standoff, those fears were realised. This is how it unfolded. • 6.04am: A standoff commences at the Cenotaph as 125 officers move up Mulgrave St towards Aitken
» Read moreBy ROB GILLIES and ROBERT BUMSTED OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Police aggressively pushed back protesters, took control of some trucks and advanced toward Parliament on Saturday after arresting more than 100 people and towing away vehicles in Canada’s besieged capital. Scores of trucks left under the increasing pressure, raising authorities’ hopes for an end to the three-week protest against the
» Read moreThe Omicron wave is stripping away one of New Zealand’s trustiest test tools, as labs are forced to move away from batch-processing of samples. But scientists hope that a PCR testing bottleneck on labs from the loss of time-saving “pooled sampling” will be offset as more Kiwis self-diagnose using rapid antigen tests. In pooled sampling, up to 10 test samples
» Read morePolice say Wellington residents have had a “gutsful” of blocked streets in the central city and urged owners of the vehicles linked with the Parliament protest to move them into Sky Stadium from tonight. Superintendent Corrie Parnell, Wellington District Commander, provided an update to media in Wellington at 5pm. Parnell urged people parked unlawfully around the Wellington CBD to move
» Read moreForecasters estimate more than one million New Zealanders will be infected with Omicron and hundreds will die within the next few months, as the Prime Minister warns the country to “prepare for winter”. The new modelling has prompted warnings from leaders in Māori health and intensive care that the Omicron surge could soon grow much worse, while one expert describes
» Read moreThere are 243 new community Covid-19 cases today – the highest daily number since the beginning of the pandemic two years ago. Yesterday, there were 209 new Covid cases in the community. The record was 222 daily community cases on November 16 last year at the height of the Delta outbreak. “The continued increase in cases today is a reminder
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