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Despite new virus case, New Zealand expects Australia ‘travel bubble’ to stay open

Editorial Bureau April 20, 2021

SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA) – Australia and New Zealand opened a travel bubble on Monday, after both countries had closed borders in March 2020 to non-citizens and permanent residents to contain the pandemic. However, New Zealand authorities reported on Tuesday that a worker in Auckland airport

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New Zealand temporarily stops entry for travellers from India because of high COVID-19 cases

Editorial Bureau April 8, 2021

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND) -New Zealand on Thursday suspended entry for all travellers from India, which includes its own citizens, for about two weeks after a high number of positive coronavirus cases arriving from the South Asian country. The move comes after New Zealand recorded 23 new positive coronavirus cases at its border on Thursday, of […]

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New Zealand’s Ardern stresses on the need for the world to talk about racism

Editorial Bureau March 15, 2021

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND) – New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that the world still needs to have discourses on racism and white supremacy. The country marked two years since two mosques in the city of Christchurch was attacked by a white supremacist. Australian Brenton Tarrant had killed 51 people and injured dozens […]

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New Zealand back in form at America’s Cup

Editorial Bureau March 12, 2021

NEW YORK (US) – Luna Rossa’s lead in the early race in light winds off the coast of Auckland, has persuaded team New Zealand to rally superbly to level the America’s Cup match at 2-2 Luna Rossa won the opener by 37 seconds but defender TNZ hit back with a 63-second victory, the most dominant […]

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ICC announces two more teams for Women’s World Cups from 2026

Editorial Bureau March 8, 2021

NEW DELHI (INDIA) – The International Cricket Council said on Monday it would have two more teams as addition to both the one-day and Twenty20 editions of the women’s World Cup from 2026. This move has ben announced as part of its plans to expand the women’s game. The Twenty20 World Cup in 2026 and […]

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New Zealand police impose charges on man after threat against mosques attacked in 2019

Editorial Bureau March 4, 2021

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND) – New Zealand police said on Thursday they had charged a 27-year-old man after he threatened to attack two mosques that were the scene of mass murder by a white supremacist two years ago. Police said an online threat was made this week on the 4chan website against the Al Noor mosque […]

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COVID cluster in New Zealand grows, three new cases

Editorial Bureau February 23, 2021

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND) – Three new locally transmitted infections were reported in New Zealand on Tuesday. This comes as the cluster in Auckland expanded days after fresh restrictions were imposed. Last week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern lifted a brief lockdown in Auckland, saying the measures had helped limit the spread of the infection to a […]

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COVID-19 vaccines reach Australia, New Zealand, inoculations to start

Editorial Bureau February 15, 2021

SYDNEY (AUSTRALIA) – Australia and New Zealand have received their first COVID-19 vaccine deliveries and will soon start with the roll out inoculations in the coming week, even as populous cities of Melbourne and Auckland were under lockdown following the emergence of new cases. “The Eagle has landed,” Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt told reporters

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New Zealand in coronavirus lockdown as UK variant cases found

Editorial Bureau February 15, 2021

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALANS) – A coronavirus outbreak, which involved the more transmissible UK variant, sent New Zealand’s biggest city into a snap lockdown over the weekend, health officials confirmed on Monday. This is the first time the strain has been detected locally. Auckland’s nearly 2 million residents were subjected to a new three-day lockdown on

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In its first since January, New Zealand reports three new COVID-19 local cases

Editorial Bureau February 14, 2021

WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND) – New Zealand on Sunday reported three new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, which is the country’s first since late January, after a returned traveller became COVID positive after leaving quarantine. New Zealand’s minister for COVID-19 response, Chris Hipkins, said the three cases includes a couple and their daughter in Auckland.