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Author: Thomas Manch and Donna-Lee Biddle

A cool storage facility in Auckland will be tested for Covid-19, with the possibility that the virus could have travelled into New Zealand on refrigerated freight.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/122423538/coronavirus-auckland-cool-storage-facility-tested-over-concern-covid19-entered-nz-via-freight
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Author: The Conversation

New Zealand is on alert as COVID-19 returns. This is what we need to stamp it out again, write three NZ professors. 

Auckland, and possibly other parts of New Zealand, almost certainly have more cases of COVID-19 in the community than the four new cases confirmed yesterday.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/08/opinion-what-nz-now-needs-to-stamp-covid-19-out.html
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Author: Sky News Australia

Former NSW treasurer Michael Costa says the recent arrest of Hong Kong democracy activist Jimmy Lai is very serious but reaffirms that Hong Kong as an "independent political entity, is over.”

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Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Lbtk-nZss
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Author: Zane Small

Plastic straws, cotton-buds, drink stirrers, plastic tableware, some single-use cups and lids, single-use produce bags and non-compostable produce stickers are planned to be phased out by January 2025. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/08/plastic-straws-stirrers-tableware-and-single-use-produce-bags-to-be-phased-out-by-2025.html
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Author: Newstalk ZB

Two of the new Covid cases travelled to Rotorua while showing virus symptoms and visited tourism spots.

The Ministry of Health is working to establish where they visited in Rotorua. People in Rotorua will need to be vigilant, director general of health Ashley Bloomfield said.

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Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/jacinda-ardern-and-ashley-bloomfield-update-on-community-transmission-new-cases/
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Author: Newstalk ZB / NZ Herald

An epidemiologist has outlined the "best case scenario" for the country after the Prime Minister announced four cases of community transmission were plunging Auckland back into lockdown.

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Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/early-edition/audio/michael-baker-chains-of-transmission-may-already-be-circulating-across-auckland/
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Author: Hamish McNeilly

Minutes before Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called a press conference to confirm community transmission, a former prime minister was asked about the Government’s response to Covid-19.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/122418814/helen-clark-prescient-warning-on-countrys-covid19-response
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Author: Tom Pullar-Strecker

Trade Me founder Sam Morgan and Animation Research boss Ian Taylor have made impassioned pleas for the Government to bite the bullet and issue a Bluetooth Covid tracing card to all New Zealanders.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/122422617/coronavirus-nationwide-lockdown-almost-certain-covidcard-decision-needed-now-trade-me-founder-says
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