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How to best prioritise Covid-19 Vaccination in Aotearoa/New Zealand
… protection of the individual and protection of the community (by reducing the risk of transmission and of … bubbles of the border workers – and then the rest of the community, she [co-chair of the Covid Immunisation … but that by doing this we make the likelihood of a community outbreak less (given it is the border where the …
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Testing for COVID-19 in NZ to achieve the elimination goal
… might optimise testing to both identify cases in the community as part of the COVID-19 elimination strategy, and … allowed for a shift to testing more potential cases in the community. Given this background, this blog describes four … There have been clusters of COVID-19 cases in the NZ community and some cases have had no links to other known …
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How best to classify and count NZ’s border control failures in the COVID-19 pandemic?
… pandemic control context is one where a person in the NZ community is infectious with SARS-CoV-2 at a time when the … isolation/quarantine (MIQ) facility worker is part of “the community” (unless they are living in the facility) while a … But if a returnee has left a MIQ facility and entered the community while still infectious, then that is a “border …
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Using a fun “Mask Day” at school to promote pandemic protection in the NZ community
… increased public engagement of mask use within the wider community. Aotearoa New Zealand is currently experiencing a … the pandemic and how masks work to protect others in the community. The teachers reported the children “remain … In many areas of the world where there are high levels of community transmission, children are also required to wear …
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Where do the parties stand? A low carbon, healthy transport system
… children and half price for young people up to 25 and for Community Services Card holders in Budget 2023. The Green … Free public transport for children, students, and Community Services Card holders immediately, and for everyone … transport policy Green Party Will increase access through community hire schemes based in marae, community centres and …
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An upgraded Alert Level 2 is urgently needed to address the Delta Variant threat
… the rest of the country at Alert Level 3) to eliminate community transmission. As NZ plans moves down the Alert … by Anna Tarazevich from Pexels On 17 August 2021, a community case with Delta variant Covid-19 infection was … for the entire nation in an attempt to eliminate the community transmission. In a recent blog , we noted that …
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A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori Wellbeing Model – guiding better housing and urban development
… New Zealand including rapid investment in public and community housing. Māori are highly urbanised and face many … natural and built environment. Incorporating the wider community and landscape in the conceptions of ‘home’ … two-way arrows): 1. Te Ao Tāngata: whānau, people in the community or elsewhere, tūpuna or others who have passed on; …
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The changing COVID-19 situation in Taiwan – what can NZ learn from Taiwan’s latest outbreak?
… to COVID-19 during 2020. However, a recent surge of community cases in northern Taiwan from April 2021 onwards … In December 2020, Taiwan reported its first community COVID-19 cases since April 2020, ending a remarkably long period of no community transmission. Since then, Taiwan has experienced …
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Government funding of interpreters in Primary Care is needed to ensure quality care
… enable Primary Care to look after Covid-19 patients in the community and the Ministry of Health has provided central … an interpreter, this can have a major effect on the whole community. We know that the Delta outbreak in Auckland was significantly within the Pacific community. What we do not know is what proportion of those …
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A Smokefree Aotearoa – could making tobacco products available only through community pharmacies help us get there?
… of smoked tobacco products could be restricted solely to community pharmacies after the number of retail outlets … is that tobacco products are made available through community pharmacies. So what are the potential advantages … cigarette and tobacco sales to a limited number of community pharmacies could maximise the positive impact of …
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