Tag: NZ lockdown
NZ lockdown – day 31: University’s room fees challenged –...
By RNZ News
A New Zealand university is asking students to pay a "placeholder fee" for rooms in its halls of residence during the covid-19...
New Zealanders commemorate Anzac Day under lockdown rules
By RNZ News
New Zealanders are commemorating Anzac Day all around the country in an unique way today.
Services around the country have been shelved and...
NZ lockdown – day 26: Government extends period to next Monday
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced New Zealand's level 4 lockdown will be extended five days until next Monday night.
The country went...
NZ lockdown – day 24: 13 new cases reported – slight...
By RNZ News
New Zealand reported 13 new cases of Covid-19 today, made up of eight confirmed, and five probable cases.
The total number of cases...
NZ lockdown – day 23: New cases drop, but deaths rise...
By RNZ News
There have now been 11 deaths from Covid-19 in New Zealand, but the number of new cases has dropped to single figures...
Trust in government is high in NZ, but will it last...
ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw of Massey University
New Zealand’s general election is currently set for September 19. Under ordinary circumstances, campaigning for the election and...
Selfish lockdown breaches cause headaches in Fiji, NZ
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series.
The lockdown breaches...
NZ lockdown – day 17: Coronavirus death toll rises to four,...
By RNZ News
New Zealand has had two further deaths because of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, doubling the death toll to four, says Director of...
NZ lockdown – Day 16: Second death confirmed, cases rise on...
By RNZ News
A Christchurch woman in her 90s who was living in the Rosewood rest home is New Zealand's second death from Covid-19, the...
NZ lockdown – day 15: Number of new coronavirus cases plummets...
By RNZ News
New Zealand has recorded just 29 new cases of Covid-19 infection in the past 24 hours, but the prime minister says a...
NZ Health Minister offers to resign over beach trip in virus...
By RNZ News
New Zealand's Health Minister David Clark has revealed that he took a trip to the beach during the alert level 4 lockdown...
NZ lockdown – day 10: Women’s Refuge sees high demand, strains
By RNZ News
Women's Refuge says lockdown worries and family strains are resulting in high demand at many of their services right now.
Chief executive Ang...
Why NZ’s coronavirus cases will rise for weeks – even in...
ANALYSIS: By Arindam Basu of the University of Canterbury
The number of New Zealanders testing positive for Covid-19 will continue to rise despite the strict...
NZ lockdown – Day 6: Emergency extended by 7 days –...
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has eased restrictions on the media industry in New Zealand during the four-week lockdown, saying it was not...
Facebook group set up for learning Māori during NZ’s lockdown
By RNZ News
If you're stuck at home during New Zealand's lockdown with time on your hands why not learn a new skill or a...
NZ lockdown – day 2: More cases, demand for protective clothing
By RNZ News
As the number of Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic cases in New Zealand increases, daily demand for protective clothing for medical workers has come...
NZ lockdown – day one: Things going as ‘smoothly as possible’,...
By RNZ News
New Zealand has - almost - made it through the first day of the national month-long lockdown, and according to Prime Minister...
Lockdown: Airline crew ‘very anxious, worried’ as NZ redundancies loom
By Phil Pennington of RNZ News
Air New Zealand stands accused of borderline legal treatment of thousands of workers as the country entered its first...