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Published: 11 February 2020

Author: Reuters

China's coronavirus has been named officially as COVID-19, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) explaining that it was important to avoid stigma and that other names could be inaccurate.

"We had to find a name that did not refer to a geographical location, an animal, an individual, or group of people," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva on Tuesday (local time).

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Read more: Coronavirus: Deadly illness named officially as 'COVID-19' - WHO

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/02/coronavirus-deadly-illness-named-officially-as-covid-19-world-health-organisation.html

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Published: 11 February 2020

Author: Vita Molyneux

A determined man frustrated Wellington motorists by walking in the middle of the road carrying a couch on his back.

Video of the man posted on Facebook on Saturday showed him trudging along the road in Eastbourne as cars slow to a crawl behind him.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/02/man-carrying-couch-blocks-wellington-traffic.html

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Published: 11 February 2020

Author: Rachel Sadler

US health officials say they have successfully treated an American coronavirus patient with an experimental drug.

Remdesivir was made by American pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, and was used on a 35-year-old man in Snohomish County, Washington state, the Washington Post reported.

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Read more: Coronavirus: US health officials successfully treat patient with experimental drug

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Published: 11 February 2020

Author: Zane Small

Labour MP Tāmati Coffey is condemning New Zealand media for what he has described as "institutional racism" following two news stories involving Māori filmmakers. 

Coffey, MP for Waiariki, wrote a Facebook post comparing two stories he had seen covered in the news: Māori film director Taika Waititi winning an Academy Award and Māori filmmaker Renae Maihi's court case with Sir Bob Jones. 

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Read more: Labour MP Tāmati Coffey hits out at NZ media for calling Taika Waititi a 'Kiwi' filmmaker

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/02/labour-mp-t-mati-coffey-hits-out-at-nz-media-for-calling-taika-waititi-a-kiwi-filmmaker.html

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 No wonder we are so divided, ... you want to divide and redivide and the divide that group... I thought Jacinda said "we are one", one people, New Zealand or Kiwi's.  If we are going to go on and on about race, creed colour of skin, we will never rid ourselves of racism, by continually dividing us in to groups, you will not rid the racism but generate more...