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Getting a Pfizer booster jab five months after a second dose reduces a person’s risk of hospitalisation with Covid-19 by 93 per cent, according to new research in The Lancet.
The study from the Clalit Research Institute in Tel Aviv and Harvard University in the US is the first nationwide analysis of booster jab effectiveness and involved 1.5 million Israelis.
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Read more: Pfizer booster jab reduces risk of Covid-19 hospitalisation by 93%
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300442375/pfizer-booster-jab-reduces-risk-of-covid19-hospitalisation-by-93
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The Government has announced a new Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030.
The announcement comes on the eve of the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow - COP26 - where world leadings will meet to discuss issues surrounding climate change.
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Read more: Government sets new NDC in bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/10/government-sets-new-ndc-in-bid-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-50-percent-by-2030.html
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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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Read more: What is the Delta Plus COVID-19 variant that's now in Australia
- 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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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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Read more: Police trying to locate two positive cases who absconded Auckland MIQ on Saturday
- 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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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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Read more: National Party calls for Royal Commission into COVID-19 Delta outbreak
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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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Read more: New Zealand reaches 75 pct fully vaccinated
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“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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Read more: On How AUKUS Undermines Our No-nukes Cred
- 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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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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Read more: How 'wolf warrior' diplomats have become symbols of the threat posed by a rising China
- 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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