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The plan to roll out Merck & Co's promising antiviral pill to treat COVID-19 risks repeating the inequities of vaccine distribution, potentially leaving the nations with the greatest need once again at the back of the line, international health groups say.
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Read more: Merck antiviral COVID-19 pill sparks calls for access for lower income countries
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/10/merck-antiviral-covid-19-pill-sparks-calls-for-access-for-lower-income-countries.html
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Midwives who would rather quit their jobs than get vaccinated against COVID-19 are urging the Government to rethink its vaccine mandate for the health workforce.
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Read more: Taranaki midwives prepared to quit rather than get vaccinated against COVID-19
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/10/coronavirus-taranaki-midwives-prepared-to-quit-rather-than-get-vaccinated-against-covid-19.html
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While it is their choice to not get vaccinated, they also need to know that they are at more of a risk of catching and spreading it to others and especially to the new born, spreading it among their family.
It will also be peoples choice to ask if the are vaccinated, and refuse to let them near them or their new born.
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On 24 May 2021 the Secretary of Defence delivered a speech to the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs on the role of the Ministry of Defence and Secretary of Defence.
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Read more: REFLECTIONS, AS THE GOVERNMENT’S LEAD CIVILIAN ADVISER ON DEFENCE MATTERS
- Article: https://www.defence.govt.nz/the-latest/story/secretary-of-defence-2021-speech-to-the-nziia
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The virus had lurked for years, lacking only one thing it needed to inflict widespread human death: a perfect opportunity.
In late 1998, it got it.
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Read more: How the hunt for this deadly virus shaped the search for Covid-19 origin
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300430973/how-the-hunt-for-this-deadly-virus-shaped-the-search-for-covid19-origin
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New Zealand's reputation in international media for having one of the world's leading COVID-19 responses has been put in doubt by a quick increase in cases months after it began a strict alert level 4 lockdown.
Having already plummeted from the top spot to number 38 in Bloomberg's COVID Resilience Rankings - attributed to the Delta outbreak and relatively slow vaccination rollout - international media have also taken to spotlighting the country's large rise in infections.
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Read more: International media paints grim picture of New Zealand COVID outbreak
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/10/coronavirus-international-media-paints-grim-picture-of-new-zealand-covid-outbreak.html
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That's what happens when you get absolute fuckwits breaking the rules, and the police force not given the power to truly enforce. You are lucky I am not in charge because if you break the rules and law set out you would be charged with bio-terrorism.
Also the mis-infomation that has spread like wild fire on the net is not helping either.
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A crew member on a New Zealand warship conducting military exercises in the South China Sea has tested positive for COVID-19.
The infected sailor, who is vaccinated, is onboard the Navy's frigate, the HMNZS Te Kaha.
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Read more: NZ sailor tests positive for COVID-19 amid South East Asia wargames
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/10/nz-sailor-tests-positive-for-covid-19-amid-south-east-asia-wargames.html
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After sending a record number of military aircraft to harass Taiwan over China’s National Day holiday, Beijing has toned down the saber rattling but tensions remain high, with the rhetoric and reasoning behind the exercises unchanged.
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Read more: Taiwan: US-China conflict unlikely, but experts say a miscalculation could spell disaster
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300430891/taiwan-uschina-conflict-unlikely-but-experts-say-a-miscalculation-could-spell-disaster
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Three crewmembers of a Royal Australian Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopter are safe after ditching their helicopter in the Philippine Sea during a routine flight overnight.
The aircraft was operating from HMAS Brisbane as part of a Regional Presence Deployment with HMAS Warramunga, when the crew conducted an emergency landing in the water.
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Read more: RAN MH-60R Seahawk helicopter ditches in the Philippine Sea
- Article: https://www.australiandefence.com.au/news/ran-mh-60r-seahawk-helicopter-ditches-in-the-philippine-sea
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