Welcome to the Spinoff updates for September 1, which brings you the latest news about New Zealand and the Covid-19 pandemic.The total country is now at alert point two, with more restrictions in Auckland.Official data here. Contact me at [email protected] 3:00 p.m.: The Treasury opposes green school grant
The $11.7 million grant to Taranaki’s personal green school was opposed through the Treasury, RNZ reports.The resolution to approve the funding, which came from the government’s shovel loan fund, was made through Green Party co-leader James Shaw, who previously apologized for the “error of judgment” (see update at 12:00 pm).
The Treasury Board in Shaw said Green School has no “full personal school enrollment” and is unlikely to get it until mid-2021, RNZ reports.”It is not the case to announce or provide government investments for a task that does not yet have mandatory educational approvals,” the board says.15
Below is a breakdown of the age levels of instances in the Auckland Community Cluster, for which the first known case considers Americold’s facilities in Mt Wellington.
Today, there were five new network instances and controlled segregation facilities.
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Between 21 and 27 August, 97% of MIQ staff took the Covid-19 test, Minister Megan Woods said today.No staff member tested positive for this test.The remaining 3% who did not take the test were licensed or did not enter an installation the trial period, Woods confirmed.
Woods, who is the minister in controlled isolation rate, is now updating the media along Air Commodore Digby Webb.There is no representative of the Ministry of Health: data on the case of Covid-19 were provided today at a press convention (see update at 12:50 pm).
The next test circular at MIQ is recently underway and is expected to be completed until this Sunday.From July 18 to August 24, 97% of the 12th-day MQA tests were completed and 95% of the third-day tests were completed, Wood said.
As has been the issue of media scrutiny, the third day’s tests are mandatory, but Woods said those effects highlight a significant adoption.
The 95% figure comes with 11,647 tests on the third day, out of 12,240 returnees.The reasons why the third day’s tests may not have ended come with the returnee being a baby, the user is medically exempt, a sea passenger or another in transit and is not in an MIQ long enough, or that he refused a test.
No one leaves a controlled segregation facility without a 12-day verification without the Approval of the Director of Health.Those who refuse will have to stay longer in an MIQ facility and will finish taking the check, Woods said.
More than 44,000 more people have ended their stay in controlled isolation and have effectively entered the community, Digby Webb said.
The capacity of all amenities is 6,628, with 5,035 spaces occupied recently, Webb said.By the end of the week, another 5,638 people are expected to be isolated.
Of the 500 additional defense force worker corps deployed at the MIQ facility, 108 are in their posts lately and 75 according to the week will be deployed over the next five weeks, so the average defense workers according to the facility will be 19.
Exemptions are granted in very limited circumstances, Webb said, and a maximum is granted for others to enroll for unaccompanied minors, if they are in transit or if they have physical fitness disorders that require hospital care.
Woods has shown that the Wellington MIQ case is the first to occur at a facility in the capital.The user arrived in Auckland on NZ1 from Los Angeles and transferred via a special transit flight, Webb said.The Wellington facility is a dual facility with controlled areas of isolation and quarantine, Webb said.
“It’s much safer to quarantine them where they already are,” Woods said, than to move the user to Jet Park in Auckland.
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There are now 14 new instances of Covid-19, adding five in the Auckland community.All nine instances are in controlled isolation, the Ministry of Health said in a press release.
The five new instances of the network are obviously epidemiologically similar to instances that are epidemiologically or genomically similar to the Auckland group.
Two cases are in the circle of contacts of family members reported in the past, and the other 3 are all in a relative similar to an existing case.
Of the cases in controlled isolation, five are in Christchurch, three in Auckland and one in Wellington; all are subject to strict quarantine agreements, the ministry said.
The Christchurch cases are a man in their 20s, a 30-year-old woguy, two women in their 40s and a 40-year-old man, all arriving on the same flight from India Fiji on August 27.
Auckland’s cases are a woman between the ages of 20 and 30, any of whom arrived from India on 23 August.The third case of MIQ in Auckland is a woman in her 50s, who arrived on 26 August from Qatar.
MiQ’s last case is in Wellington: a man in his fifties who arrived on August 18 from the United States and underwent regime testing around the 12th day of his miQ stay.
Since 11 August, 2,743 case contacts have been identified, of which 2,676 have been contacted and are self- isolation.
The ministry said he had 51 close contacts from Tokoroa’s medical professional who tested positive for Covid-19.Of these, 48 have already been contacted. They have already been tested and yielded a negative result, or are self-insulating awaiting a test.The team continues to monitor the other 3 contacts nearby.
There are 123 other people connected to the group of networks that have been transferred to the Auckland Quarantine Centre, which includes 79 other people who tested positive for Covid-19 and his circle of family contacts.
There are 10 other people with Covid-19 in the hospital today; two in the city of Auckland, 3 in Middlemore, 3 in the North Shore and two in Waikato.Eight other people are in a ward and two are in intensive care, one at Middlemore and Waikato hospitals.
There are thirteen in the past reported instances that are thought of as recovered today – all network instances – bringing the number of active instances to thirteen2.Of these, 33 are imported into MIQ amenities and 99 are Community instances.
Our overall Covid-19 demonstration is now 1401.Yesterday, our labs processed 8,599 tests for Covid-19, bringing the total number of tests performed to date to 766,626.
There are now more than two million registered users of the Covid Tracer government app.Adoption of the application increased significantly after Covid-19’s return to the community.This means that the portion of the population over the age of 15 is now registered in the application and that there has been an average of more than 1.7 million scans consistent with the day in the following week.
Health Executive Director Ashley Bloomfield absent from the last hour to 1 p.m.press conferences, though he is expected to return to action tomorrow.
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James Shaw has apologized for his resolution of a debatable “green school” in Taranaki, but has filed a complaint with the previous national government for the lack of funds for schools that want help.
The personal school earned nearly $12 million in cash from the government’s shovel in a position fund, prompting complaints from across the political spectrum.
“The resolution of this assignment was an error of judgment,” Shaw said today at a press convention.”If I took the same resolution again, I wouldn’t do the assignment.”
Shaw said he understood that the Green School had approached Crown officials to find a solution.
“These discussions can take time and, regardless of what you think of the process, ministers enter the industry negotiations.But I hope that all concerned will take the time to reflect on how convinced others are of this and to take those perspectives into account in those discussions..
“My non-public opinion is that the most productive way to do this is for the Green School to take the form of a loan rather than a grant.This would guarantee a full refund of the money.”
Shaw thanked those who had contacted him about his considerations.”I’ve taken the time to reflect on your considerations and I’m acting accordingly,” he said.
“When the mayor of New Plymouth first told me about green school, I saw the opportunity to employ many others in an ecological structure project.
He said that over the past week he had been asked a lot why the government supported the structure of a personal green school when other schools needed help.This, Shaw said, is a “fair question,” but then criticized the national government beyond for “systematically underfunded” public schools.
The current government is looking to rectify that, but “underlying a giant component, the sadness that other people have felt in recent days is that cash is not entering the network fast enough,” Shaw said.
Next week’s reviews and questions were an opportunity to learn, Shaw said, and he believed the green school worked with a viable solution.
“Once again, I send parents, teachers and unions.To the members of the Green Party who … felt demoralized by this decision.To Taranaki schools who rightly need the most productive for their children.And I need you.” all to know that I’ve listened to your concerns, ” said Shaw.
He would like investment in a green school to be a loan now than a grant, Shaw said, but it is not for him as a minister to decide.
In reaction to a reporter inquiry, Shaw said New Plymouth Mayor Neil Holdom took him to the couple who started the school. “Ironically, one of the things I said to you was, ‘Are you sure you should come to the Crown because government cash is more complicated than it’s worth? he was quite willing to proceed. “
Shaw has shown that he has no plans to resign, but admitted that the saga of green schools can jeopardize his party’s electoral hopes.
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The online video platform YouTube has surpassed TVNZ 1 as the most popular channel in New Zealand.Almost one in two New Zealanders, 48%, says they use it daily, and the online video entry is now more than an hour a day, with the SVOD.At 90 minutes as Duncan Greive writes in The Spinoff today, this result shows that area in situations that demand the dominance of television and has already won the war for the younger ones.
Read more: YouTube tops the list and more effects on New Zealand media audience
Hollywood stars Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons were forced to mingle with others in shocking news reported this morning.It was revealed that the couple had been denied their request for self-isolation on a rural property through MBIE.an exemption to enter the country for the filming of Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, which toured Southland.
Despite Stuff’s unanswered questions about where the stars were, Dunst recently told Variety mag that he was staying at a New Zealand hotel, which is believed to be the SO Hotel in Britomart.
Investigations are underway on how the attacks were carried out in the New Zealand inventory exchange, and the GCSB rate minister says the outage was announced.
Yesterday marked the fifth day of NZXArray outage with trading stops last week, after DDOS attacks brought the system offline.
Minister Andrew Little, who oversees our GCSB spy agency, told RNZ last night that NZX and other establishments had gained messages by pronouncing the attacks.
“As I perceive it, the organizations that were attacked gained messages before those attacks saying they would be attacked,” he said.Few did not reveal whether they demanded a ransom, but showed that the government’s policy is to offer no cash in exchange for preventing an attack.
The attacks, Little said, gave the impression of being the paintings of criminal actors from a foreign state, but their motives were until now unknown.Little said the names of “state actors” were used in the attacks, but that “it seemed increasingly likely that the use of those names was a decoy.”
Similar attacks are occurring around the world, in Southeast Asia and North America, however, few will reveal the affected countries.
The Minister of Education is urging Auckland’s parents to send their children back to school, despite new Covid-19 instances detected daily in the community. At alert point two, schools may reopen and students cannot wear a mask on school grounds and on the school bus.However, the parents were heavily involved with social media, and several parents claimed that their children would stay at home during the two alert points.
Chris Hipkins, who is also Health Minister, told RNZ this morning that after the first lockdown, it took some time for to get normal attendance.
“We need young people to go back to school as temporarily as possible, because it is their learning that is compromised,” he said.
When asked if the mask deserves to be mandatory on the school grounds, Hipkins said that students can use it if they wish, but that it can be difficult to make sure they are worn permanently.If they’re not used all the time, Hipkins said they can do it.a little redundant.
“The existing fitness recommendation is that in a school, the mask would necessarily increase coverage and, in fact, could do the opposite,” he said.
The parents are comforted, Hipkins said, in the fact that all new instances of Covid-19 that occur on the network come from other people who were known contacts from existing instances, so they were already remote and not at school or in the workplace.”This group has been contained,” he said Hipkins.No there is a 100 percent guarantee with nothing, however, all cases have been identified where there was a link to a school.”
A Herald vote this morning shows that the people of Auckland did not fully agree with the government’s resolve to enlarge the closure of point 3 for a few more days.Yesterday marked the first day of the “alert point 2.5”, with the points of sale allowed to open, but still with restrictions in force and the use of mask is encouraged.
According to the new survey, 62% of respondents across the country supported the resolution of widening the blockade for another 4 days until Sunday night, and 19% said it had dragged on further.
But auckland residents were less confident, with 56% saying that the four-day extension was a proper response, with 19% less spreading further, 14% supporting the original endpoint and 9% saying it had never happened.
We are beginning to see a wonderful divergence in the final results of the Covid-19 source income alleviating allocation brought to the beginning of the pandemic.At the time, many welfare advocates criticized the new benefits of being located at a much higher level than the original rate of gaining advantages – they argued that it necessarily established a two-tier social coverage formula that punished those who were unemployed before the pandemic, who already had an uninhabitable low source of income, and it turns out that many of those considerations have proven right.
Two stories illustrate this in particular. The first is from Sarah Robson of Radio NZ and is discovered from survey knowledge compiled through an organization organization.The conclusion is quite clear: covid’s aid subsidy beneficiaries are much more expensive than those of popular unemployment gaining benefits and have reported fewer cases where they have failed to meet their fundamental needs.A very important point of all this is that many recipients of Covid’s aid have more resources to rely on, whether homeowners or passive sources of income, that those who have been unemployed for some time are much less likely to be.The survey also found that the accumulation of $25 a week overall gained advantages had little impact.
And who are the other people who get the most productive bills in Covid’s relief?As Isaac Davison of the NZ Herald reports, it is much more likely that those who are unemployed will gain advantages, so Maori are enormously in other words, the formula of gaining two-tier advantages would possibly contribute to increasing racial inequality.Clear warnings were issued when Covid’s aid payment was established, and that is precisely what happened.
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Auckland has to sign up for the rest of the country at alert point two, but with some additional restrictions.
Face masks are now mandatory in public shipments in the country.
There were new instances of Covid-19, five of which were in the community.
The prime minister said the public can accept it as true with him and the government, despite a challenge of communicating with the tests over the weekend.
Plans to “modernize” the Earthquake Commission (CQE) and make it easier for applicants to use, following an investigation.
School maintenance and renovations would accelerate as a component of the $4.8 billion national school policy.
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