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A public health expert is urging the government to seriously consider temporarily closing the border to arrivals from the UK and review the border system, with the new strain rife there now thought to be more deadly as well as far more infectious.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced overnight that government scientists now believe the new variant there may be 30 percent more deadly.
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Read more: Public health expert says NZ should close border to UK arrivals
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/01/covid-19-public-health-expert-says-nz-should-close-border-to-uk-arrivals.html
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North Korea, one of the most repressive dictatorships in the world, has lashed out at Australia for what it says are breaches of the international human rights law.
It's one of more than 40 countries which called on Australia to improve its human rights record during the United Nations human rights five yearly review on Wednesday.
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Read more: North Korea calls Australia out for its 'deep-rooted racism' and discrimination
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/01/north-korea-calls-australia-out-for-its-deep-rooted-racism-and-discrimination.html
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The UK National Health Service (NHS) is being urged to add the "COVID tongue" to its official list of coronavirus symptoms.
More COVID-19 patients are suffering sores on their tongues and unusual mouth ulcers after contracting the virus, according to Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist at King's College London.
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Read more: 'COVID tongue' should be counted as new coronavirus symptom - UK epidemiologist
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/01/covid-19-covid-tongue-should-be-counted-as-new-coronavirus-symptom-uk-epidemiologist.html
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This morning, Defence Minister Linda Reynolds announced that the replacement for the much-troubled ‘Aussie Tiger’ armed reconnaissance helicopter (ARH) would be the Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian. Australia will acquire 29 of the advanced Apaches from 2025, at a cost of A$4.5 billion, to replace 22 Tigers. The minister stated:
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Read more: Australia chooses Apache as Tiger helicopter replacement
- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-chooses-apache-as-tiger-helicopter-replacement/
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The Immigration Advisers Authority is investigating an alleged scheme at an Auckland Tongan church, which promises residency for cash.
Meetings have been held at the 'I Laumalie Mo Mo'oni church in Māngere with claims they are promoting the unauthorised scheme.
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Warning - this article discusses sexual abuse.
A sexual violence victim advocate has issued a stark warning to New Zealanders after a man was jailed for trying to buy a child to sexually abuse online.
Ruth Money told Newshub the case is "extreme" - but things like this do happen.
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Google has threatened to remove its search engine from Australia over the nation's attempt to make the tech giant share royalties with news publishers.
Australia is introducing a world-first law to make Google, Facebook and potentially other tech companies pay media outlets for their news content.
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Read more: Google threatens to withdraw search engine from Australia
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Double-bunking at a managed isolation facility could have led to COVID-19 leaking out to the community, according to a disease modeller.
Michael Plank, professor at the University of Canterbury told Newshub that transmitting the virus during quarantine could mean that by day 14 the virus could still be infectious.
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Read more: COVID-19: Sharing bunk beds in quarantine could have leaked the virus - disease modeller
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