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Author: The Conversation

New Zealand is on alert as COVID-19 returns. This is what we need to stamp it out again, write three NZ professors. 

Auckland, and possibly other parts of New Zealand, almost certainly have more cases of COVID-19 in the community than the four new cases confirmed yesterday.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/08/opinion-what-nz-now-needs-to-stamp-covid-19-out.html
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Author: Sky News Australia

Former NSW treasurer Michael Costa says the recent arrest of Hong Kong democracy activist Jimmy Lai is very serious but reaffirms that Hong Kong as an "independent political entity, is over.”

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Author: Zane Small

Plastic straws, cotton-buds, drink stirrers, plastic tableware, some single-use cups and lids, single-use produce bags and non-compostable produce stickers are planned to be phased out by January 2025. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/08/plastic-straws-stirrers-tableware-and-single-use-produce-bags-to-be-phased-out-by-2025.html
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Author: Newstalk ZB

Two of the new Covid cases travelled to Rotorua while showing virus symptoms and visited tourism spots.

The Ministry of Health is working to establish where they visited in Rotorua. People in Rotorua will need to be vigilant, director general of health Ashley Bloomfield said.

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Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/jacinda-ardern-and-ashley-bloomfield-update-on-community-transmission-new-cases/
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Author: Newstalk ZB / NZ Herald

An epidemiologist has outlined the "best case scenario" for the country after the Prime Minister announced four cases of community transmission were plunging Auckland back into lockdown.

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Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/early-edition/audio/michael-baker-chains-of-transmission-may-already-be-circulating-across-auckland/
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Author: Hamish McNeilly

Minutes before Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called a press conference to confirm community transmission, a former prime minister was asked about the Government’s response to Covid-19.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/122418814/helen-clark-prescient-warning-on-countrys-covid19-response
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Author: Tom Pullar-Strecker

Trade Me founder Sam Morgan and Animation Research boss Ian Taylor have made impassioned pleas for the Government to bite the bullet and issue a Bluetooth Covid tracing card to all New Zealanders.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/122422617/coronavirus-nationwide-lockdown-almost-certain-covidcard-decision-needed-now-trade-me-founder-says
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Author: Jamie Ensor

A British historian has suggested the United Kingdom form a new "global superpower" with New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/08/united-kingdom-should-form-global-superpower-with-new-zealand-canada-australia-historian.html
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I have been getting questions on CANZUK and what is my view as I have put up a few articles on the subject. At this stage, I think it is an interesting idea, BUT I am neither for nor against it.

If it stays a trade block, freedom of movement and working etc and with maybe a bit of security and armed forces thrown in the mix I would be okay with it. However if it went full political union like the EU then no... most definitely not.
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