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Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 9:55 am A newly established advisory group will ensure New Zealand’s COVID-19 response continues to learn and adapt with a focus on continual improvement, COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins says. “Throughout our response to the unprecedented challenges posed by COVID-19 we have been committed to continual improvement, and independent advice has been a really important part of that process,” Chris Hipkins said. “Independent reviews of our contact tracing systems and the implementation of our testing strategy provided useful advice and recommendations. Imp...

MINISTRY OF HEALTH Border workers were the first people in New Zealand to be vaccinated against Covid-19, in Auckland on February 20, 2021. Safety, side effects, timing and the eligibility of non-residents and visa overstayers are just some concerns the Pasifika community have when it comes to the Covid-19 vaccine. These were discussed at a meeting by Pacific leaders, organised by the Minister for Pacific People, Aupito William Sio last week, to help inform New Zealand’s Pacific community on the key vaccination programmes this year. The discussion came after a survey by the Ministry of He...

Share Esther Charlesworth, founder of humanitarian organisation Architects Without Frontiers (AWF) and a professor at RMIT University’s school of architecture and urban design, is the youngest child in a family of seven. She's got quite a story of her own. But over a 90-minute meal in which she travels from 1980s Melbourne to Harvard Uni, through the troubled Balkans and Africa, then back to a women's refuge in Melbourne's Preston, it becomes apparent that although she's making her own mark on the world, she's doing so in the shadow of her siblings. Charlesworth, and her twin sister, are th...

William (Bill) and Brenda Coiner William (Bill) and Brenda Coiner will celebrate their 50th anniversary January 1, 2021. They married January 1, 1971 in the Bride’s parents home, Homer and Dorothy Booth in St. Albans, WV. Bill’s parents, Bill and Flo Coiner were in attendance along with relatives from both sides of the family. Bill and Brenda met in August 1970 while on a double date, they were not each other’s date that evening. They met again a few weeks later at a drive in restaurant. Brenda had a date scheduled the next night with another guy, but Bill drove Brenda to the guy�...

Monday, 14 December 2020, 6:03 am The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) has today announced more than $6.3 million in funding for 11 new research studies designed to help ensure equitable health and wellbeing outcomes for all New Zealanders during the recovery from COVID-19 and future infectious disease threats. The HRC’s director of Equity, Māori and Pacific health research, Mr Stacey Pene, says COVID-19 has the potential to worsen inequities in health outcomes for Māori, Pasifika and other groups such as older adults with multiple health conditions, those living in rural dwe...