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Monday, 19 April 2021, 10:59 am National is pleased a solution has finally been found for some of the migrants split from their families after the Government forced them to endure more than a year of distress and uncertainty, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. “News that many migrants, including our critical nurses and health workers, will finally get to hug their children and partners will be an enormous relief to them. “New Zealand is critically short of nurses and is undertaking the biggest vaccination programme in living memory, so it’s reassuring that migran...

Pfizer vaccine for all is 'good news' - National MP Yvette Mccullough © Getty National's Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop also backed the move. Opposition MPs and medical experts are backing the government's decision to make Pfizer New Zealand's main Covid-19 vaccine. The government has secured enough doses for five million people to get the two Pfizer-BioNTech shots needed to be fully protected against Covid-19. While National supports the decision, it said the government now needed to spell out exactly when New Zealanders could expect to receive their jabs. Auc...

The vaccines are expected to arrive throughout the second half of the year. Photo: AFP The government has secured enough doses for five million people to get the two Pfizer-BioNTech shots needed to be fully protected against Covid-19. While National supports the decision, it said the government now needed to spell out exactly when New Zealanders could expect to receive their jabs. Auckland University vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris is part of an independent panel giving the government scientific advice on Covid-19 vaccines. She said she was "delighted" by the decision to invest in a vacc...

Operator Good morning, and welcome to Mercer International's Fourth Quarter 2020 Earnings Conference Call. On the call today is David Gandossi, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mercer International; and David Ure, Senior Vice President Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary. I will now hand the call over to David Ure. Please go ahead. David K. Ure -- Senior Vice President Finance, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary Good morning, everyone. I'll begin by reviewing the fourth quarter's financial highlights, and following my remarks, I'll pass the call to David, who will comm...

National set to return to Maori seats 01 Feb 2021 13:48 PM Photo: Radio Waatea Image Database. More Related Stories National is finally turning its back on a Don Brash-era policy of spurning the seven Māori seats. Speaking at yesterday's caucus retreat in Wellington, leader Judith Collins said the party had been absent for too long from the seats and she would work towards running candidates in as many as possible in 2023. National has not contested the seats since 2005, shortly after then-leader Don Brash’s Orewa speech where he painted them as an anachronism which should be abo...