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Manukau Urban Maori Authority board chairman Bernie O Donnell. Also on the chopping block was Waitangi ki Manukau in south Auckland, where Che Fu and Herbs were scheduled to play. “Holding a concert at this time given our community’s vulnerability would be irresponsible,” Manukau Urban Māori Authority board chairman Bernie O Donnell said. “The risk profile is too great in our mind now, so we are acting decisively according to the best interests of the community we serve.” The event will instead be postponed until next year. This weekend marks Auckland Anniversary Day, which is also celebrated in Northland, Waikato, the Bay of Plenty and Gisborne.
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Temporary entry visa class holders coming into the country will be charged significantly higher MIQ fees from March 25.
The National Iwi Chairs’ pandemic response group has called for the number of New Zealanders returning home to be restricted to 1500 a week, almost half the current number of returnees As of 8am, 27 January a total of 5483 New Zealanders were due to return home in the next two weeks. National Iwi Pandemic Response Group principal adviser Dr Rawiri Taonui said it was no longer sustainable to allow this number of arrivals into the country. The important thing is that the Northland case and the two cases in Auckland, that s the 11th outbreak in New Zealand and all our outbreaks have occurred when the average number of returnees per week is over 2000, what that has caused is active cases in MIQ to be between 60 - 75, Taonui said.
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