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Author: China Uncensored

Rampant corruption within the United Nations World Health Organization is putting lives at risk during the deadly coronavirus outbreak from Wuhan, China. Why did the WHO delay issuing a global emergency? Has Chinese money influenced the WHO and it's Director General Tedros Adhanom? And what about poor Taiwan?

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Health Minister David Clark says the government is keeping a close eye on countries with soaring instances of Covid-19 amid an uncertain international situation.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/410290/health-minister-david-clark-on-coronavirus-travel-ban
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Author: Vita Molyneux

A 19-year-old German girl described as "the antidote to Greta Thunberg" is gaining popularity with her right-wing supporters.

 
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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/german-teen-naomi-seibt-the-antidote-to-greta-thunberg-gaining-popularity-with-far-right.html
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Author: Reuters

Fears of a coronavirus pandemic have grown after sharp rises in new cases reported in Iran, Italy and South Korea but China relaxed restrictions on movements in several places including Beijing as its rates of new infections eased.

The surge of infections outside mainland China triggered steep falls in Asian shares and Wall Street stock futures as investors fled to safe havens such as gold. Oil prices tumbled.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/coronavirus-outbreak-sharp-increase-in-cases-in-iran-italy-south-korea.html
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Author: Meredith Cohn

In 1582, Pope Gregory began a campaign to replace Julius Caesar's widely used calendar with a slightly more accurate one that was named for him. Most of the modern world eventually agreed, and the rest is history.

Now a pair of Johns Hopkins professors believe it's time to turn the page on the Gregorian calendar in favour of one to really last the ages.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/119749275/forget-leap-days-start-every-year-on-a-monday--professors-propose-new-calendar
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Author: Libby Wilson

A Waikato student rapidly choked and collapsed after vaping in his school lunchbreak - he's since vowed never to touch the stuff again.

The Cambridge High School student was taken to Waikato Hospital last Wednesday, and his caregivers were told vaping was the cause, the school said.

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Author: Laurie Garrett

As the deadly coronavirus began to spread, Beijing wasted the most critical resource to fight it: trust.  The novel coronavirus epidemic has reached a critical juncture. Steps taken over the next few days, particularly by Beijing’s leadership, will decide the fate of the virus and whether it spreads internationally to become a genuine pandemic. Time is short for the Chinese government to prevent a catastrophe.

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Article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/15/coronavirus-xi-jinping-chinas-incompetence-endangered-the-world/
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Author: Dan Satherley

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it's "not realistic to assume" COVID-19 will never reach New Zealand, and the current travel restrictions can't go on forever.

The virus has so far infected nearly 80,000 people, killing nearly 2500 of them. The vast majority of the deaths - 2346 - have been in China's Hubei province, where the outbreak began. It's now starting to spread in other countries, most notably South Korea, Japan, Italy, Singapore and Iran. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/coronavirus-very-high-chance-covid-19-will-reach-nz-jacinda-ardern.html
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  1. Coronavirus: South Korea on high alert, cases jump in Italy and Iran
  2. Amateur 'astronaut' trying to prove the Earth is flat killed in rocket crash
  3. Concern over growing number of cases unconnected to Wuhan
  4. Most benefit sanctions applied to Māori, figures show

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