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Harry Stevens at The Washington Post recently published a very elegant simulation of how a disease like COVID-19 spreads. If you haven't already, I highly recommend checking it out.
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Read more: Simulating an epidemic
- Article: https://meltingasphalt.com/interactive/outbreak/
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern doesn't think it'll take the army to keep New Zealanders following social distancing rules.
Since the pandemic alert level 4 lockdown came into force on Thursday, there have been reports of Kiwis ignoring instructions not to socialise with people outside of their immediate household.
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Read more: When might the army be called in to enforce social distancing?
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/03/coronavirus-when-might-the-army-be-called-in-to-enforce-social-distancing.html
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Between 11pm Thursday night and 8am Friday morning police received 396 calls relating to Covid-19 and 279 related to self-isolation breaches.
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Read more: Neighbours dobbing in Kiwi rule breakers
- Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/neighbours-dobbing-kiwi-rule-breakers
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The more people that flout the rules, the longer we be in lock-down and it will defeat the whole purpose.
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The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, says there has been no change to Australia's position on New Zealanders out of work due to Covid-19.
On Tuesday she pleaded with the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, to make an exception to the rule that bars many of the 650,000 New Zealanders there from receiving a benefit.
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Read more: Jacinda Ardern says no change in Australia's stance to New Zealanders
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/412806/coronavirus-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-says-no-change-in-australia-s-stance-to-new-zealanders
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It's a bit like the mystery of where butterflies go in the rain - where do the worlds planes go when they're not flying? It's one of the many unprecedented problems the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up for the aviation industry.
Airlines have spent decades mastering the art of maximising the amount of time an aircraft is in the air and shortening the turnaround time between flights as much as possible, because an aircraft on the ground doesn't make any money.
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Read more: Plane parking spaces hard to find as coronavirus grounds thousands of aircraft
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2020/03/plane-parking-spaces-hard-to-find-as-coronavirus-grounds-thousands-of-aircraft.html
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So in this post, I will have my Facebook posts A light heart view during the lockdown... It will change regularly as I add to it so keep coming back to see some funny posts. The idea here is we have to keep our sense of humour else we will all go insane... well more insane than we presently are.
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Read more: Some light hearted fun: Nighthawk's Facebook status updates during isolation.
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Experts are divided over whether people should sanitise packages or deliveries received in the mail during the COVID-19 crisis.
As of Wednesday at 11:59pm, the Government's coronavirus response was escalated to alert level 4, requiring all Kiwis to self-isolate in their houses for four weeks.
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Read more: How long COVID-19 can survive on mail, deliveries, packages
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/03/coronavirus-how-long-covid-19-can-survive-on-mail-deliveries-packages.html
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Kiwis have been warned against breaching health requirements to engage in casual sexual activity.
The alert level 4 lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic has effectively barred New Zealanders from having physical contact with anybody outside their household for the next month.
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Read more: Kiwis warned against casual sex during lockdown
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/120592598/coronavirus-kiwis-warned-against-casual-sex-during-lockdown
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