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Author: Rachel Sadler

While New Zealand is dealing with its own COVID-19 Delta outbreak, a new variant has arrived on Australia's shores.

The Delta Plus variant was detected in a quarantine hotel in Sydney and officially reported on Saturday. The variant, which is an offshoot of Delta, is formally known as AY.4.2 and includes some new mutations affecting the spike protein which the virus uses to penetrate cells.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/10/explainer-what-is-the-delta-plus-covid-19-variant-that-s-now-in-australia.html
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Author: Catrin Owen

Two Covid-19 positive cases have allegedly absconded from Jet Park Managed Isolation and Quarantine Facility on Saturday and are yet to be found.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300442389/covid19-police-trying-to-locate-two-positive-cases-who-absconded-auckland-miq-on-saturday
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Author: Mark Quinlivan

The National Party is calling for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into a lack of preparation for the Delta variant of COVID-19 arriving on New Zealand's shores.

It comes after 160 new community cases of COVID-19 were reported on Saturday - the worst day of daily infections since the pandemic began.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/10/national-party-calls-for-royal-commission-into-covid-19-delta-outbreak.html
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Author: William Hewett

New Zealand is one step closer to reaching the 90 percent goal for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 after the Ministry of Health announced the country had reached 75 percent on Saturday. 

The Ministry of Health announced the landmark in their press release to announce the daily cases on Sunday.

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Author: Gordon Campbell

 “I can take care of my enemies,” the Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuiiano once famously said, “but God protect me from my friends.” Phil Twyford would probably share the sentiments. After Kiwibuild became political Kryptonite for Labour on his watch, Twyford got demoted. Among a few relatively undemanding odds and ends, he was given the job of helping to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. Blissfully, it won’t be held against him this time, if he fails to achieve global nuclear disarmament.

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Article: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2110/S00088/on-how-aukus-undermines-our-no-nukes-cred-plus-a-music-playlist.htm
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Author: Peter Martin

It was late afternoon when Rimbink Pato, Papua New Guinea’s foreign minister, heard a loud commotion outside his door. Seconds later, four young Chinese diplomats burst uninvited into his office, demanding last-minute changes to the communiqué of the APEC summit, the Pacific’s most important economic and political forum.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/china-and-nz/300405981/how-wolf-warrior-diplomats-have-become-symbols-of-the-threat-posed-by-a-rising-china
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Author: Luke Hazelton and Robert G. Patman

OPINION: Despite claims that a new strategic alliance between Australia, the UK, and US (Aukus) had marginalised New Zealand, there are indications this development could bolster the significance of Wellington’s non-nuclear stance in countering China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/126816652/why-aukus-has-not-diminished-nzs-nonnuclear-security-strategy
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Author: Gillian Bonnett

A couple who set up a business in New Zealand have been described as a threat to national security because of their link to Chinese intelligence services.

They denied they were spies, but were rejected for residence and lost an immigration appeal.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/china-and-nz/300441967/couple-denied-nz-residence-due-to-chinese-intelligence-linkst
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