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The government announced a $47. 6 million repayment program.
India surpassed Brazil at the time in the worst country for Covid-19 cases.
The government has announced more information about auckland’s top schoolchildren affected by the recent closure of Level Three.
The countdown to New Lynn, west of Auckland, was closed for deep cleaning after being visited through a Covid case on September 4.
There were six new instances of Covid-19, 4 of which were in the community, similar to the mt Roskill church subgroup, and both in controlled isolation.
Labor has announced a number of policies for small businesses, adding the extension of the small business lending program and the limitation of Paywave’s fees.
National is to improve Hawke’s Bay Hospital.
Consumer Minister Kris Faafoi announced a $47. 6 million repayment program to help agencies recover the foreign cancellation fee.
Travel agencies will get 7. 5% of the price of currency refunds and 5% of the price of credits actually guaranteed on behalf of consumers. “This will mean, for example, that if an agent recovers $10,000 in coins on a cancelled trip, the consumer retrieves those coins and the agent will get $750,” Faafoi said in a statement. “If it is a canceled credit of $10,000, the visitor gets the credits and the agent gets $500. “
India outperded Brazil to the maximum time affected country through Covid-19 instances, resulting in an accumulation of detected instances in our controlled isolation centers.
In the last fortnight, 26 New Zealanders tested positive after returning from India. The influx of imported specimens would possibly be connected to only two flights, which would arrive in Christchurch on 23 and 27 August after transiting through Fiji. only 20 instances away.
India reported 4. 2 million cases of Covid-19, still about two million less than in the United States, with 71,000 deaths.
The government has also revealed the best school academics in Auckland affected by the recent closure of Level Three.
“This year has been worrying for many New Zealanders, but I know it’s been stressful for some of the best students in schools,” education minister Chris Hipkins said.
“Student well-being is one of our most sensitive priorities, and everyone who works for NCEA this year will have their learning and assessment program impacted through Covid-19. “
Today a number of adjustments were announced to students, including:
Another Auckland supermarket has been forced to reduce its doors due to exposure to a shown case of Covid-19.
Newshub reports that a visitor at Covid visited New Lynn Countdown in West Auckland on the night of September 4, between 8 p. m. 8:30 p. m.
“According to our policy, we simply blank the store as soon as we place it as an additional precaution; it’s not something we’re asked to do, it’s anything to reassure our team and our community,” Kiri Hannifin said. countdown. Newshub’s head of communications.
Earlier in the day, six more instances of Covid-19 were shown through the Ministry of Health: 4 in the network and two in controlled isolation.
An outbreak broke out this afternoon between two marginal political parties following accusations of misappropriation in Auckland.
Photos posted on Facebook through a Vision NZ supporter claim to show covered signs through an Advance NZ palisade, showing the smiling faces of Jami-Lee Ross and Billy Te Kahika.
Vision NZ is led by Hannah Tamaki, co-founder of Destiny Church, who turned to Twitter to denounce the alleged hoarding exchange as a “dirty policy. “
“The [Of Te Kahika and Ross] let go of doing this. dishonor for them, dishonor for their leaders,” he wrote.
Comments on Facebook show a war of words between Vision NZ and Advance NZ supporters. One commentator even speculated that it was Vision NZ who exchanged Advance’s banner, calling it “bad taste” of Tamaki’s campaign.
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Updated
There are now six new instances of Covid-19, 4 of them on the network, and two remaining in controlled segregation. The 4 new instances of the network are all similar to the “subgroup” of mt Roskill Evangelical Church, which in turn is connected to Auckland’s largest group. Auckland Regional Public Health is actively investigating and its contacts, the ministry said.
Cases occur less than a week after the announcement of the rollback or not to alert point one and constitute a component of the Auckland-era instance “queue” at alert point three.
The two new imported instances are a boy in his twenties who arrived from the Philippines on September 3 and a woguy in his overdue adolescence who arrived on the same flight from the Philippines. Both tested positive on the third day of their stay in controlled isolation. .
There are 69 other people connected to the network group who remain at the Auckland Quarantine Facility, which includes 52 other people who tested positive for Covid-19 and its family contact circle.
Since August 11, touch seek has known 3274 touch casings, of which 3228 have been touched and are self-insulating.
Today, four others are hospitalized with Covid-19, two at Middlemore and North Shore hospitals, and the other two in intensive care at North Shore and Waikato hospitals.
With the six new instances and one additional recovered case, the total number of active instances is 123, of which 43 are instances imported into MIQ services and 80 are community instances.
Yesterday, 4,525 tests were processed for Covid-19, bringing the total number of tests to date to 823,154. This amount of evidence is well below the ministry’s previous target of 7,000 tests consistent with the day.
The total number of exhibits is now 1,431, the ministry said.
Covid Tracer app
There are now 2,150,000 registered users of the Covid Tracer app, with 362,256 QR posters created.
The application recorded 45,494,859 poster scans and 2,529,729 log entries.
For those who don’t have a smartphone and can’t use the app, the ministry reports that the Covid frame eBook should now be used to help others keep a written record of their movements if they can’t download the app.
We are still waiting for the Covid-19 press release of the Ministry of Health, which is expected to arrive shortly, we will have it for you right here when it arrives.
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– The Spinoff (@TheSpinoffTV) September 7, 2020
The most recent Covid-19 figures will be revealed in a Ministry of Health press in about 30 minutes.
We’ll have all the latest news here as soon as they’re done in my inbox.
This afternoon a number of small business measures were unveiled through labor leader Jacinda Ardern to help the Covid-19 east.
If re-elected, the Labour Party would expand the small business money program over 3 years and make the year of the loan interest-free. Regulations on “market service charges” charged through banks to stores will be regulated.
Ardern is in Tauranga today, with Labor Small Business spokesman Stuart Nash to make the announcement.
“Our track record in supporting SMEs shows that we are in a position to act temporarily to remain the engine room of our developing economy. We are now moving on to the next phase to help small and medium-sized businesses adapt and innovate in the new business landscape,” Nash said.
“Improving monetary support, new tactics to drive virtual transformation and reduce prices and regulatory effects are at the heart of our plans to help companies recover faster. “
The plan includes:
Opportunity party leader Geoff Simmons is furious after his party was excluded from the debate over TVNZ’s smaller parties. replace in the criteria. Advance NZ has also been shown to participate.
Under the new TVNZ rules, “leaders of registered parties where the leader is a deputy, or a party represented, in either of the last two parliaments” will be able to participate in the debate.
In a tweet, Simmons alleged that the Opportunity Party “deliberately excluded” from the debate and claimed that the criteria were shredded.
He also approached former United Future executive Peter Dunne and invited him to TOP co-leader.
The now is that your criteria are in tatters. The whole procedure is a joke, and @top_nz is intentionally excluded.
Hi @honpeterdunne, do you need a TOP co-leader so we can be a part of the action?
– Geoff Simmons ???? (@geoffsimmonz) 7 September 2020
Although United Future did not appear in this election, Dunne was a deputy in the last parliament, meaning that if he joined Simmons, the party would be invited to the stage.
Will Dunne settle for this offer?Only time will tell.
National leader Judith Collins is proceeding to her election tour at Hawke’s Bay today, and has stated that she would fund the modernization of the local hospital if she were elected next month.
Under Collins, National would rebuild the main hospital block, with excavators running through 2025, the emergency branch expanded, and air conditioning installed as soon as possible.
Rebuilding $400 million to $500 million follows National’s commitment to invest $31 billion in transportation infrastructure and a 30-year plan for school development. “National is infrastructure,” Collins said in a press release.
“We are committed to making our paintings of public fitness formulas for you, your children and your family. These ments will mark the lives of many New Zealanders. “
National has still published its general fitness policy, however, according to the press release, it can be expected “soon”.
TVNZ has replaced its criteria for small party debate, opening the field, reports a small enthusiast/newsletter editor Alex Braae
Having in the past had only three parties at the level for the debate of minor party leaders, TVNZ has reopened the criteria to allow the Maori party to have a place.
The technical substitution is that there will now be the inclusion of “registered party leaders where the leader is a member of parliament, or the party is represented, in either of the last two parliaments. “
United Future, which also had an MP in the last parliament, is included because it is no longer recognized.
The resolution was made in component because of the lack of Maori representation on one of the campaign’s highest vital occasions.
One spokesman said: “TVNZ accepts the Maori Party’s fear that existing criteria will adequately take into account parties competing only for Maori electorate seats. “
“We also make sure that the good fortune of Maori election seats has an effect on the composition of parliament, and the audience must be aware of the parties and politicians that may have a viable path to parliament by winning seats.
He also showed that Advance NZ would be invited to send one of its leaders to participate in the debate, with the party represented in parliament through former national deputy Jami-Lee Ross. It is not known at this level whether Ross will take the level. or co-leader Billy Te Kahika Jr.
For other parties hoping to do so, TVNZ said there will be an opportunity to qualify based on the ballots, as some other One News/Colmar Brunton ballot will be published before the debate, which will give the new conservatives, the Parties of Opportunity, Aotearoa Legalize Cannabis and the Single Party, which on the last ballot all received 0. 1% or more.
The debate will take place on 8 October.
Here are our political leaders today
Labor is ready to introduce a new policy aimed at small businesses today, according to a herald’s report. Party leader Jacinda Ardern is in Tauranga as electoral crusade 2. 0 sets in motion with a smart start, Covid-19’s two-point alert.
As the Herald reports, a component of the new Labour policy will aim to reduce the burden of millions of dollars that small businesses pay for contactless payment services, such as Paywave. Some companies may simply not pay for contactless services, which raised fitness issues for others who had to touch the keyboard when buying items.
Currently, corporations have to pay a payment for the use of contactless credit and debit card transactions, adding cell wallets and Paywave, however, there are no such payments for an Eftpos card by inserting or swiping.
We will have all the official main points of the policy here once they have been confirmed.
The bewildering crusade of 2020 came back into action yesterday, with leaders scattered across the country. Judith Collins is located in Hawkes Bay, where she announced national party policy to combat methamphetamine addiction. Jacinda Ardern bases the maximum of the week on an unlikely rural center: Morrinsville. Yesterday, he traveled to Rotorua to deliver stardust, literally at most, in the form of a promise to present a new holiday for Matariki. However, it will not be brought until 2022.
You know you’re on a crusade just as press releases fly like an asteroid field, as Stewart Sowman-Lund asked in yesterday’s live election, the Greens thanked us for following our thinking and others said an economic crisis wasn’t the time to go on a vacation. A quick review of topic headers. “The Greens are pleased with Labor’s for Matariki Day. “National: “Economic plan of work – some other party”. NZ First: “Unnecessary cargo party” (the word “Matariki” is not mentioned in yours). And act: “Jacinda Ardern is on earth. “
Ardern would be very happy with the dissidents, Audrey Young, editor-in-chief of the NZ Herald. “The more the Labour Party can call its crusade positive, and the rest as bumpers, the better. “
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Four new Covid-19s have been announced, two of which are similar to the Auckland Community Cluster.
The three-tv channel Three has been officially sold to US media Discovery, Mediaworks has confirmed.
The Labour Party says it will make Matariki a holiday starting in 2022 if it can shape a government after next month’s election.
National has announced its “global” drug policy to address methamphetamine disorders.
Jacinda Ardern showed that Winston Peters had advocated for wider use of the mask through the public in March, when the country closed nationally.
Read yesterday’s updates in full here.
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