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As people settle into a new way of life in their Covid-19 lockdown bubble it is clear not everyone is following the rules.

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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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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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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Author: Dan Lake

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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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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Author: Nighthawk

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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Author: Matt Burrows

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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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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Author: Mariné Lourens

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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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/120592598/coronavirus-kiwis-warned-against-casual-sex-during-lockdown
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Author: NZ Herald

A Hamilton woman wants to know what people can and can't do after her parents were told to go home by police while out walking.

As the country began its first day of a minimum 4-week Covid-19 lockdown, Kirstin McNabb told the Herald her parents, aged 68 and 74, were going for a walk around Hamilton Lake about 11am today when they were stopped by police.

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Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/hamilton/covid-19-lockdown-confusion-after-hamilton-couple-told-to-go-home-while-out-walking/
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Author: James Skinner

Healthcare is currently a major issue with the recent pandemic of COVID-19, but implementing reciprocal healthcare arrangements between CANZUK countries would provide numerous benefits for citizens residing across Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Our proposals for facilitated migration, free trade and foreign policy cooperation between the CANZUK countries are widely supported, but a major benefit that is often overlooked is healthcare and how reciprocal agreements between the four countries can provide citizens with emergency health coverage while abroad.

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Article: https://www.canzukinternational.com/2020/03/healthcare.html
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