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A woman deemed too fat for New Zealand residency is gutted a country committed to kindness is so brazenly shaming her and penalising her family.
Doctors and medical tests are in agreement: Mondelea Bezuidenhout is in good health, despite weighing 128 kilograms.
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Read more: Too fat for NZ: Mum can't lose weight fast enough for immigration officials
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/300341891/too-fat-for-nz-mum-cant-lose-weight-fast-enough-for-immigration-officials
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Rules are rules... It has nothing to do with being kind... WTF.. we have enough problems with overweight Kiwi's already, which down the track can cause health issues and high rate of pre-diabetes/diabetics.
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New Zealand reported no community cases of COVID-19 and four in managed isolation on Saturday.
The latest figures come as Wellington remains at alert level 2 after a traveller from Sydney tested positive for the virus following a visit to the city last weekend.
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Read more: No community cases, 4 in managed isolation; NSW records more local cases
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/06/covid-19-no-community-cases-4-in-managed-isolation-nsw-records-more-local-cases.html
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Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Wollongong and the Central Coast are being placed into lockdown.
It comes after New South Wales officials announced earlier on Saturday 12 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases. That does not include any cases detected since 8pm on Friday night.
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Read more: Lockdown extended to Greater Sydney as Delta variant proves to be 'formidable foe'
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/06/sydney-lockdown-likely-to-be-extended-after-nsw-records-more-community-cases.html
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A major US government report on UFOs released on Friday said defense and intelligence analysts lack sufficient data to determine the nature of mysterious flying objects observed by military pilots including whether they are advanced earthly technologies, atmospherics or of an extraterrestrial nature.
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"That's no moon - it's a space station." Not quite, Obi-Wan. In this case, it's a comet.
An enormous comet estimated to be at least as big as the second Death Star from the original Star Wars trilogy has been spotted hurtling our way.
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Read more: Comet the size of Star Wars' Death Star spotted heading towards our solar system
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/06/comet-the-size-of-star-wars-death-star-spotted-heading-towards-our-solar-system.html
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The coronavirus that's ravaged the world in the past 18 months isn't the first to emerge from Asia and cause widespread illness.
There's evidence one "similar to COVID-19" tore through eastern Asia 20,000 years ago, according to a new study.
"The modern human genome contains evolutionary information tracing back tens of thousands of years, like studying the rings of a tree gives us insight into the conditions it experienced as it grew," said Kirill Alexandrov of the University of Queensland.
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Read more: Scientists find evidence of a coronavirus epidemic that happened 20,000 years ago
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The Prime Minister is brushing off coronavirus communication criticism as her COVID-19 Response Minister rejects an auditor's concerns about outbreak contingency plans.
The Government came under fire on Wednesday for informing the public about locations of interest the infected Sydney traveller visited, at around the same time Wellingtonians were leaving to go to work.
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Read more: Jacinda Ardern brushes off COVID-19 communication criticism as Chris Hipkins rejects...
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/06/jacinda-ardern-brushes-off-covid-19-communication-criticism-as-chris-hipkins-rejects-auditor-general-s-contingency-concerns.html
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So why is it when a business gets audited especially on health and safety issues they must fix those issues... Yet when government gets audited they just brush it off...
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Chinese scientists mysteriously deleted data about the coronavirus' genetic sequence collected early in the pandemic, a virologist has discovered, suggesting the aim was to "obscure their existence".
Jesse Bloom - a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle - says he managed to recover the data from hidden files on Google Cloud, and they reveal the earliest infections picked up in Wuhan probably weren't among the first.
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