Covid 19 coronavirus: Ngāti Kahungunu says elderly are most vulnerable and will be vaccinated first
16 Feb, 2021 01:20 AM
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The first to be vaccinated will be border workers followed by their whānau, whereafter will come frontline first responders such as St John, health workers and GPs. Photo / AP
The first to be vaccinated will be border workers followed by their whānau, whereafter will come frontline first responders such as St John, health workers and GPs. Photo / AP
NZ Herald
By: Te Rina Triponel, Māori Affairs Reporter
Ngāti Kahungunu iwi say they are focused on getting whānau vaccinated as soon as the vaccine is available, following the announcement of Auckland s alert level 3 three-day lockdown.
Acid spill: Signs warning against swimming in Pandora Pond removed
11 Feb, 2021 08:43 PM
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Emergency crews in the Pandora industrial area during the chemical alert on the afternoon and evening of February 5. Photo / Paul Taylor
Emergency crews in the Pandora industrial area during the chemical alert on the afternoon and evening of February 5. Photo / Paul Taylor
Hawkes Bay Today
Warnings against swimming and other water activities in popular Napier recreation spot Pandora Point have been lifted a week after a chemical spill in the neighbouring industrial area.
A Napier City Council media release says warning signs advising people to stay out of the water have been removed.
Friday, 12 February 2021, 11:37 am
A new fluoroscopy machine at Hawke’s Bay Hospital,
which offers a reduced radiation dose and clearer images
than the previous fluoroscopy machine, will be fully
operational from next week.
The replacement machine,
which was unveiled last week, uses X-rays to create moving
images of the body in real time. It helps to diagnose and
treat conditions of the blood vessels, bones and joints as
well as digestive, urinary, respiratory and reproductive
systems.
Radiology Manager, Angela Fuller said staff
have started training on the machine this week.
“We
are excited to have this new machine,” Angela said. “It
During the response to both incidents and in the days afterwards water samples were collected from both the affected waterway and Ahuriri Estuary. Napier City and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council staff continued to investigate the causes of each incident “to ensure events of this type do not occur in future”. The acid spill, which came from Galvanising Hawke’s Bay, occurred last Friday in the Thames St area, which then entered the storm water system and into the Tyne St drain.
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Hydrochloric acid was spilled into the Ahuriri Estuary on Friday afternoon. The Napier City Council used vacuum trucks which extracted 40,000 litres of acid-contaminated water, during the night.