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Fiji locks down 400-patient hospital after COVID death
Health authorities are quarantining all patients and staff within the compound until they can determine who had contact with the coronavirus patient.
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NZ suspends quarantine-free travel from Sydney
The decision was made following the detection of two community cases in Sydney.
- by Georgia Forrester and Henry Cooke
China plans to revive strategic Kiribati airstrip: MP
Despite its small size, the nation controls one of the biggest exclusive economic zones in the world, covering more than 3.5 million square kms of the Pacific.
- by Jonathan Barrett
NZ slams China for ‘severe human rights abuses’ against Uighurs
Similar motions in the parliaments of the United Kingdom, Canada, and the Netherlands have condemned the abuse as “genocide”.
- by Thomas Manch
Ronald Brierley forfeits knighthood after guilty plea to child abuse material
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern initiated the process in April and in a statement on Tuesday said the Queen had been informed.
- by Sarah McPhee and Georgina Mitchell
Jacinda Ardern says NZ’s differences with China becoming harder to reconcile
Ardern pointed to increasing differences between New Zealand and China as the member of the Five Eyes security alliance country faces increasing pressure over its reluctance to criticise Beijing.
- by Praveen Menon
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Auckland Airport worker tests positive for COVID-19
It comes after the first quarantine-free flights from Australia arrived in the country on Monday, with the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble.
- by Sarah McPhee, Rachel Clun and Daniella White
PNG embarks on urgent mission after receiving 132,000 vaccine doses through COVAX
Small teams will be sent to villages while stadiums could be used for mass vaccinations as the country attempts to stamp down its raging COVID-19 epidemic.
- by Rachel Clun
The priest was idolised but his accusers say the price for his charity was too high
The horrors they said happened behind closed doors for years will play out in court. Richard Daschbach’s is the first clergy sex case in a country that is solidly Catholic.
- by Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Raimundos Oki
Christchurch mosque killer launches legal appeal over ‘terrorist status’
Brenton Tarrant’s legal bid to get NZ’s High Court to revoke his ‘terrorist’ status will have no impact on his life sentence.
- by Jody O'Callaghan
Second case linked to COVID outbreak at Auckland quarantine facility
New Zealand has reported a second positive case of COVID-19 following the infection of a worker at a managed isolation facility that was announced on Thursday.
- by Bernadette Basagre