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The Government is possibly running out of vaccines in September and it could be their own fault.
In May Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins told Newstalk ZB that Pfizer had confirmed that New Zealand would receive 8 million doses in the third quarter, saying “we will get them all by the end of September.”
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Some employers are underpaying their workers and First Union says it's expecting to see that continue as lockdown rolls on in Auckland and Northland.
Eyewear company OPSM/Luxottica is paying New Zealand staff 80 per cent of their normal rate of pay. In an email a spokesperson told 1 NEWS that employees are the companies' “most important asset” and the pay reduction is “consistent with previous long-term lockdowns”.
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Read more: Some employers underpaying staff during lockdown
- Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/some-employers-underpaying-staff-during-lockdown
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NZ Defence Force captain in charge of Afghanistan evacuation speaks about mission for the first time
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The Kiwi Commander in charge of New Zealand's evacuation effort in Afghanistan has spoken for the first time about just how difficult the mission was.
Group Captain Nick Olney compared the rescue to pulling people from a mosh pit, and says they were lucky not to have been at the airport when the first suicide bomber struck.
Flying over a city under Taliban control, our Defence Force (NZDF) lands at Kabul's International Airport, taxiing past lines of people boarding aircraft from around the world in a race to evacuate as many as possible.
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On September 1, COVID-19 vaccinations will finally be open to all New Zealanders no matter their age, occupation or health status.
But at the same time as New Zealand is facing the wrath of Delta, we are facing another growing epidemic - the wrath of misinformation, something that is almost impossible to escape.
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Read more: How to protect anti-vax loved ones from the torrent of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
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The Government hasn't used Bluetooth tracing to check whether people have been exposed to any new cases since the first day of the outbreak, Marc Daalder reports
The Government has not made use of a contact tracing function that Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins described as a "tool that will help to speed up contact tracing".
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Read more: Govt hasn’t used Bluetooth tracing since start of outbreak
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The U.S. intelligence community does not believe it can resolve a debate over whether a Chinese laboratory incident was the source of COVID-19 without more information, U.S. officials said in a declassified summary on Friday.
U.S. officials said only China can help solve questions about the true origins of the virus that has now killed 4.6 million people worldwide. "China's cooperation most likely would be needed to reach a conclusive assessment of the origins of COVID-19," they said.
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Read more: US intelligence can't solve COVID-19 mystery without more information from China
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/coronavirus-us-intelligence-can-t-solve-covid-19-mystery-with-more-information-from-china.html
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North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, the U.N. atomic watchdog has said in an annual report.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has had no access to North Korea since Pyongyang expelled its inspectors in 2009.
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Read more: North Korea appears to have restarted nuclear reactor, IAEA says
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There are 53 new cases of Covid-19 linked to the Delta community outbreak, bringing the total number of cases to 562.
The Ministry of Health gave the update in a statement on Monday, ahead of a Cabinet decision later on alert levels, due to be announced at 4pm.
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Read more: 53 new cases in Delta outbreak, 562 in total
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