Tag: NZ lockdown
Chris Trotter: Why the right-wing media hates Jacinda’s covid elimination strategy
ANALYSIS: By Chris Trotter
There is something decidedly sinister about the way the right-wing media is pursuing the “elimination strategy is madness” argument so doggedly....
NZ lockdown ‘having an impact’, PM Jacinda Ardern tells nation
RNZ News
While covid-19 case numbers are still rising in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the lockdown is having an obvious impact in...
Community leaders say NZ vaccine rollout plan not working for Pasifika
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist
The government-designed vaccination rollout in New Zealand has not mobilised Pacific communities to respond safely and effectively, the Pacific...
Pacific health provider fears for covid-forced lockdown hardships
By Sarah Robson, RNZ News social issues reporter
A Pacific health and social service provider in Auckland fears the city's fifth lockdown will push families...
11 new covid cases in NZ community, including three in Wellington
RNZ News
Eleven new cases of covid-19 have been reported in the community in New Zealand today, including three in the capital Wellington, the Ministry...
AUT student among 10 new delta cases of covid-19 in NZ...
RNZ News
An Auckland University of Technology (AUT) student who was at a lecture yesterday is among the 10 new cases of covid-19 reported in...
Fiji government ‘useless’, warns Prasad – Ardern touts lockdown benefits
RNZ Pacific
The Fiji government's response to the covid-19 pandemic outbreak is an utter failure, but it is not too late to follow New Zealand's...
Panic buying and generosity: A year since NZ entered covid lockdown
RNZ News
Today marks one year since Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the call to put New Zealand into a covid-19 lockdown.
At the time, Aotearoa...
NZ covid: Destiny Church leaders actions ‘completely irresponsible’
By RNZ News
New Zealand's Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says the actions of the Destiny Church leaders in leaving Auckland on the eve of...
NZ detains three German yachties in Bay of Islands for defying...
By RNZ News
Three German yachtsmen - two men and a woman - have been detained after arriving in the Bay of Islands, in breach...
Cracks in New Zealand’s covid-proof team of 5 million? The facts
ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
This week The New Zealand Herald admitted a story about resentment of Auckland's covid-19 lockdowns didn’t quite...
NZ covid-19: Confronting the deluge of conspiracies over the latest lockdown
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
The announcement that Auckland was going into lockdown for a second time was met with a deluge of conspiracy...
NZ’s Auckland lockdown to continue for 12 more days, says Ardern
By RNZ News
Auckland will remain in alert level three for a full two weeks, with the New Zealand government announcing that the country will...
Hundreds call busy NZ healthline over new lockdown, emergency text resent
By RNZ News
People calling New Zealand's covid-19 healthline were facing long waits on hold today as the phone line struggles with high demand as...
Four new covid cases push NZ into three-day resurgence plan
By RNZ News
Four positive cases of covid-19 outside of managed isolation or quarantine have been reported and New Zealand has activated a resurgence plan.
After...
‘Stay home, stay safe, be kind’: What NZ can teach the...
By Democracy Now!
New Zealand implemented one of the earliest lockdowns and has largely succeeded in eliminating the coronavirus under the leadership of Prime Minister...
Jokowi deploys army, police to enforce Indonesia’s coronavirus ‘new normal’
By Marchio Irfan Gorbiano in Jakarta
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has announced that the Indonesian Military (TNI) and National Police will be deployed to guard...
Give RSE workers a media ‘voice’ and ask hard questions, says...
By Philip Cass of Kaniva News
Recognised seasonal employee workers in New Zealand rarely have a voice in the New Zealand media, new research at...
NZ’s new covid action: $50bn rescue fund in ‘once in a...
By Craig McCulloch, deputy political editor of RNZ News
A $50 billion rescue fund sits at the centre of 2020's "once in a generation Budget"...
NZ coronavirus state of emergency lifted – replaced by transition period
By RNZ News
The state of emergency across New Zealand has been lifted on the eve of alert level 2 - putting the country in...
Bridges ‘ignored’ proposals for Māori at Epidemic Committee, MP says
By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, RNZ News Te Manu Korihi reporter
Members of Parliament sitting on New Zealand's Epidemic Response Committee say the chair, opposition National...
MPs’ questioning of NZ legal iwi checkpoints ‘really is racism’
By Te Aniwa Hurihanganui, Te Manu Korihi reporter of RNZ News
Community checkpoints have garnered support from New Zealand local councils, police and hundreds of...