Category : News
Author: MARC DAALDER

The Government hasn't used Bluetooth tracing to check whether people have been exposed to any new cases since the first day of the outbreak, Marc Daalder reports

The Government has not made use of a contact tracing function that Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins described as a "tool that will help to speed up contact tracing".

Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/govt-hasnt-used-bluetooth-tracing-since-start-of-outbreak
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Category : News
Author: Reuters

The U.S. intelligence community does not believe it can resolve a debate over whether a Chinese laboratory incident was the source of COVID-19 without more information, U.S. officials said in a declassified summary on Friday.

U.S. officials said only China can help solve questions about the true origins of the virus that has now killed 4.6 million people worldwide. "China's cooperation most likely would be needed to reach a conclusive assessment of the origins of COVID-19," they said.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/coronavirus-us-intelligence-can-t-solve-covid-19-mystery-with-more-information-from-china.html
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Author: Reuters

North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, the U.N. atomic watchdog has said in an annual report.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has had no access to North Korea since Pyongyang expelled its inspectors in 2009. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/north-korea-appears-to-have-restarted-nuclear-reactor-iaea-says.html
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Author: Josephine Franks

There are 53 new cases of Covid-19 linked to the Delta community outbreak, bringing the total number of cases to 562.

The Ministry of Health gave the update in a statement on Monday, ahead of a Cabinet decision later on alert levels, due to be announced at 4pm.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/126223447/covid19-53-new-cases-in-delta-outbreak-562-in-total
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Author: Matt Burrows & Rebecca Watson

A New Zealand conspiracy group is in disarray, turning on each other and lamenting a poor turnout after barely anyone turned up to an anti-lockdown protest in Auckland CBD last week.

Police arrived at Aotea Square to break up the demonstration on Friday after being alerted to chatter about it on social media, but told Newshub only one person arrived with the intention of protesting.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/08/nz-covid-19-conspiracy-group-in-disarray-after-almost-nobody-turns-up-to-anti-lockdown-protest.html
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Category : Defence
Author: Michael Peck

At this point, it is worth noting that the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia also had a habit of "acquiring" Western technology without the consent of the owners, for everything from the atomic bomb, to the Space Shuttle and video games. It's actually a dubious accomplishment, an admission that a nation lacks the capacity to really innovate its own technology.

Remember that Russian carrier-based jet that China copied without permission? Those airplanes are crashing, and Russia doesn't seem too broken up about it.

Article: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/why-russia-doesn%E2%80%99t-care-chinese-j-15-jets-are-crashing-177867
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Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS

A man who led efforts in his Central Texas community against mask wearing and other preventative measures during the coronavirus pandemic has died from Covid-19, one month after being admitted to the emergency room. 

Caleb Wallace died on Saturday, his wife Jessica Wallace said on a GoFundMe page where she had been posting updates on his condition, the San Angelo Standard-Times reported Saturday.

Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/texas-man-protested-mask-wearing-and-lockdowns-dies-covid-19
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So you start a GoFundMe page... tell me why would people want to support it...? it has been proven over and over that Masks help slow the spread... not from you getting but from you giving to others...

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Author: George Block

An Auckland Naval barracks accommodating personnel working in managed isolation facilities is in full lockdown after Covid-19 was found in its wastewater, Stuff has learned

The facility is next to Devonport, where the first positive case emerged in the current community outbreak of the Delta strain.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300394255/military-accommodation-for-miq-staff-in-lockdown-after-positive-wastewater-result
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