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Author: Kristin Hall

The Ministry of Health has put out an urgent letter asking health providers to do a better job of warning people about possible serious side effects of the Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine.

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/12/17/health-providers-urged-to-warn-of-rare-covid-vaccine-side-effects/
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This will bring the anti vaxxers out ... LOL.  There are side effect to every vaccine out there, and yes some could die. but you have do the math. Of the billions of vaccines that have been issued there have only been a handful of reports of side effect related deaths... More people die from crossing the street.

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Author: Dan Satherley

Experts fear with the UK suffering "two epidemics on top of each other", there's an increased likelihood Omicron and Delta could swap genes, making them potentially even more dangerous.

The UK is experiencing its biggest wave of the pandemic yet. While the number of Brits infected with the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is stable, the highly infectious Omicron variant is spreading rapidly. Data suggests it's already dominant in London, and could see hundreds of thousands testing positive a day as soon as Christmas. 

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/12/coronavirus-could-omicron-team-up-with-delta-to-make-a-super-variant-what-scientists-think.html
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Author: Matt Burrows

A young child who died with COVID-19 in New Zealand this week was not a known case prior to their death, the Ministry of Health says.

The ministry's case demographic website was updated on Friday afternoon to show a single death in the 0 to 9 age bracket. The website listed the child as a Māori boy registered with Counties Manukau DHB.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/12/coronavirus-young-boy-who-died-with-covid-19-was-not-a-known-case-prior-to-his-death.html
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Author: RNZ

A child under the age of 10 has become the youngest person with Covid-19 to die in New Zealand, according to data on the Ministry of Health website.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/458151/child-is-youngest-person-with-covid-19-to-die-in-nz-moh-data
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Author: Matt Burrows

Three further Omicron cases have been detected at New Zealand's border, the Ministry of Health has announced.

The cases arrived in Auckland from Dubai last Saturday and were transported to a managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facility in Rotorua.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/12/three-more-omricon-cases-at-new-zealand-s-border-all-unlinked-to-first-case.html
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Author: Charlie Mitchell

Some vaccine pass users may be having their identities stolen and sold to unvaccinated people as part of an emerging black market.

Efforts to bypass the system used to exclude unvaccinated people from many public spaces may be finding success due to an inherent flaw in the system.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/127301227/a-black-market-in-covid-vaccine-passes-is-issuing-fraudulent-but-effective-certificates
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Author: 1News

Ministers will meet on Friday to discuss whether to bring forward the booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as the first case of the Omicron variant emerged in New Zealand.

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Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2021/12/16/time-between-second-dose-booster-may-be-cut-bloomfield/
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Author: Mike Kilpatrick

In November China's Yutu 2 lunar rover photographed an object on the far side of the moon that was quickly dubbed a 'mystery house'.

According to journalist Andrew Jones, who reports on China's space programme, the cube-shaped image was around 80m away from the rover in an area known as the Von Kármán crater.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2021/12/why-is-it-taking-so-long-to-find-out-what-the-mystery-house-on-the-moon-is.html
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