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Author: Dan Satherley

People who contract the Delta variant of COVID-19 spend much longer infectious before they start to show symptoms than people who contract earlier versions of the virus, new research has found. 

Asymptomatic spread of the disease has made stamping it out difficult, particularly the highly contagious Delta variant. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/coronavirus-delta-patients-are-infectious-without-symptoms-for-longer-study.html
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Author: Finn Hogan.

A Defence Force Hercules is en route to Afghanistan to evacuate New Zealand's stranded citizens - but one Kiwi journalist with a first-hand view of the Taliban takeover won't be aboard when it returns. 

Charlotte Bellis has been on the ground in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul reporting for Al Jazeera and told Newshub Nation she will remain there to hold the city's new rulers to account.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/kiwi-journalist-charlotte-bellis-won-t-evacuate-afghanistan-despite-taliban-takeover.html
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Author: Sarah Catherall

Mary-Lyn Chambers often wakes in the night gasping for breath. On bad days, when a winter chill seeps into her Auckland home, the film writer and director feels as though her lungs are damp. In October last year, the New Zealand citizen fled Los Angeles, where she had lived for 20 years, and arrived back here to be closer to family and friends.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300387863/avoid-at-all-costs-kiwis-who-caught-covid19-overseas-urge-country-to-take-it-seriously
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Author: Lisette Reymer

The lockdown woes of New Zealand are being felt 18,000 kilometres away.

In London, where there are thousands of new cases every day, but no restrictions, there are now growing concerns that the Kiwi outbreak will affect emergency applications for MIQ slots.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/08/coronavirus-concern-among-kiwis-in-london-about-impact-of-new-zealand-outbreak.html
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Author: Kaysha Brownlie

There are still no cases of COVID detected in the South Island, but as locations of interest increase so does the likelihood of the virus crossing the Cook Strait.

As South Islanders sit at home watching cases balloon in the North, sealing off the South is looking like a good idea.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/08/calls-to-seal-south-island-off-to-keep-covid-out.html
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Author: NZDF

Some of you may have seen the article published by Stuff on Friday, claiming that New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) had issued an edict to stop Kiwi soldiers seeking information and trying to help their trapped Afghan friends. Contrary to claims by Stuff, there has been no official NZDF edict to stop Kiwi soldiers trying to help their trapped Afghan friends.

Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/nzdf/news/statement-from-the-chief-of-defence-force
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Author: NZ Herald

A horrifying video of the Taliban carrying out an execution of an Afghan police chief is in direct conflict with their promise to keep the peace and not seek retribution.

Haji Mullah Achakzai, who served in the Afghan Armed Forces, was employed as the police chief of the Badghis province near the city of Herat when he was captured by the Taliban.

Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/fall-of-afghanistan-taliban-execute-police-chief-despite-promising-no-retribution/NUIBXKRAVBPZABZSM7SGTWQR2M/
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Author: Chris Tobin

Drones will be flying out of a new Timaru factory starting from next month.

Aeronavics, a Hamilton industrial aerial robotics company whose clients include the US Navy, is relocating its manufacturing operation from Hamilton to 26 Kennels Rd, Washdyke.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/126112040/hamilton-company-relocating-drone-factory-to-timaru
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