カテゴリー: Coronavirus outbreak
Teaching council says student teachers are not able to complete the requisite number of practical hours because of this year’s lockdowns Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than a thousand student teachers in New Zealand wi…
Teaching council says student teachers are not able to complete the requisite number of practical hours because of this year’s lockdowns Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than a thousand student teachers in New Zealand wi…
Revival prompts calls to divert boats to help protect native Indo-Pacific humpbacksCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageLarge numbers of dolphins returned to Hong Kong waters within weeks of the Covid-19 crisis shutting down high…
Coronavirus deaths pass 925,000; biosafety head at Chinese CDC says vaccine progress ‘very smooth’; South Korea to secure early vaccines for 30 million Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAs global coronavirus cases neared 30 mi…
Gardening craze has reportedly led to endangered species being dug up from mountains and forests Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOfficials in the Philippines say the coronavirus pandemic is fuelling a new problem in the coun…
Rather than rebuild the social fabric of his country during the coronavirus-driven economic slump, Narendra Modi has chosen to play identity politicsLast month Narendra Modi, India’s strongman prime minister, performed the religious rites to consecrate…
Cases also rising in England and Scotland as Europe outbreak worsens; seven more deaths in worst-hit Australian state; Oxford University vaccine trials to resume. Follow latest updatesOxford University resumes Covid-19 vaccine trialsTrump ally who trie…
UN secretary general calls for ‘quantum leap’ in funding; Donald Trump claims US is ‘rounding the final turn’ as deaths near 200,000Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe French president, Emanuel Macron, is expected to lay out…
Health authorities struggle to lock down cluster at Auckland evangelical church after some people refused to co-operateCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s health minister has pleaded with people to stop spreading m…
Antimicrobial resistance ‘biggest human health threat, bar none’, says Australian research director ahead of three-year study in FijiThe emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), including drug-resistant bacteria, or “superbugs”, pose far greater ri…
The economic response to the pandemic risks being blinkered by old orthodoxies at a time when investment is sorely neededNew Zealand’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been rightly praised. Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said New Ze…
Health workers and older people among those bearing brunt of added pressure brought by coronavirusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealanders are experiencing more depression and anxiety since the coronavirus lockdown, do…
Lavish ceremony fails to mention Li Wenliang, who spoke up about virus, prompting online outcry Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn a lavish ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese leader Xi Ji…
Educators in the disputed region are fighting to keep pupils on track amid repeated lockdowns, curfews and internet blackoutsAsmat Jan, 15, practises her singing in a meadow, against a backdrop of Kashmir’s towering mountains. In front of her, around 5…
In August the US president said New Zealand was seeing a ‘big surge’ in cases, but it only reminded people of how well they had doneFollowing comments by Donald Trump that New Zealand was dealing with a “big surge” of new Covid-19 cases, Kiwis have sna…