カテゴリー: Jacinda Ardern
Celebrities encourage turnout as response surpasses Jacinda Ardern’s call to administer 100,000 shotsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s “Super Saturday” of Covid vaccinations has proved a hit, with more than 2.5% …
The prime minister has enjoyed huge support during the pandemic – but the country’s new course may force unpopular trade-offsThis week, New Zealand’s locked down cities woke to a brave new world of lifted restrictions: state-sanctioned picnics in parks…
By granting freedom as cases numbers rise, Jacinda Ardern has diverged from the nation’s understood strategy of aligning policy with expert consensusThe New Zealand government called time on its world-leading Covid-19 elimination strategy on Monday, an…
Head of the Waikato Mongrel Mob chapter Sonny Fatupaito was asked to encourage gang members and their families to get testedSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has endorsed granting a Mongrel Mob leader special e…
Irresponsible statements are fuel for those who falsely believe their rights have been taken awayWhen former prime minister John Key referred to New Zealand as a “smug hermit kingdom” in his widely disseminated op-ed, I thought it was pushing it a bit,…
New Zealand’s prime minister has essentially turned a blind eye to the pact – she knows taking the moral high ground leads to punishmentNew Zealand defence hawks reacted to the announcement of the anglophone security pact Aukus this month by complainin…
News that jabs may soon be approved for children could allow New Zealand to achieve milestone, experts say, but equality in access must be improvedSee all our coronavirus coverageJacinda Ardern wants to make New Zealand a world leader in Covid vaccinat…
New Delta cases below 21 for sixth consecutive day, as Jacinda Ardern announces vaccine purchase from SpainSee all our coronavirus coverageDaily cases in New Zealand’s coronavirus outbreak have continued to fall, with just 13 new infections recorded on…
PM says supermarket terrorist had fraudulent refugee status amid warnings against kneejerk reactionsNew Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has said that a legal loophole which allowed an Islamic State-inspired terrorist to remain free will be cl…
Jacinda Ardern says ‘every legal avenue’ was used to detain Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen until his refugee status was resolvedNew Zealand had tried for years to deport the terrorist who stabbed shoppers in an Auckland supermarket on Friday before be…
With a nationwide lockdown and some of the world’s strictest restrictions, Jacinda Ardern is counting on her people’s goodwill againIn locked-down New Zealand, life orbits around the 1pm briefing. As the home-bound nation digests its lunch, the directo…
Country records 21 new cases, its worst single day for transmission since April last yearJacinda Ardern has warned New Zealanders the worst of the Delta outbreak of Covid-19 is yet to come after another jump in cases.New Zealand recorded 21 fresh commu…
Total case numbers grow to 31, including three in Wellington, as Jacinda Ardern urges public to stay vigilantSee all our coronavirus coverageThe whole of New Zealand will remain in lockdown until midnight Tuesday, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has anno…
Asked what she would say to people who questioned the need for a level 4 lockdown, the prime minister responded with one word: ‘Australia’See all our coronavirus coverageTo overseas eyes, going into national lockdown over a single case should have been…
Jacinda Ardern warns of more cases as Auckland cluster grows to 10, marking New Zealand’s first local transmissions of Delta variantSee all our coronavirus coverageNew Zealand’s coronavirus cluster has grown to 10, with genomic sequencing linking it to…