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Author: Reuters

The Australian city of Perth was ordered into lockdown on Sunday after a security guard working in hotel quarantine tested positive for COVID-19, ending the country's longest coronavirus-free run.

From Sunday evening until Friday, people in the city of 2 million must stay home, except for essential work, healthcare, grocery shopping, or exercise, with visits to hospitals and nursing homes banned, Western Australia state Premier Mark McGowan said

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/02/covid-19-australia-s-perth-enters-first-day-of-full-lockdown-after-community-covid-19-case.html
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Author: Rachel Sadler

Some regions of Western Australia are going into a full lockdown after a hotel quarantine worker tested positive for COVID-19.

Areas including the Perth metropolitan area, the Peel region, and the south-west region will go into lockdown from 6pm (local time) on Sunday. This lockdown will last until 6pm on Friday.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/01/coronavirus-some-western-australia-regions-to-go-into-full-lockdown-after-quarantine-worker-tests-positive.html
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Author: Eloise Gibson and Olivia Wannan

By 2032, new homes won’t have gas connections, we’ll be cycling twice as much, and you won’t be able to import a petrol car, under a blueprint for making the whole country carbon neutral.

What we would get under the plan is lower household energy bills (for most people), better health, quieter streets, cleaner water and better biodiversity, because swathes of land will have been planted in government-subsidised native trees.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/124079047/the-government-will-not-hold-back-jacinda-ardern-on-how-nz-could-go-zero-carbon
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Author: Bloomberg Quicktake

Tensions between the U.S. and China have been steadily escalating on a range of issues, but there’s one place where a clash of superpowers would be most likely to happen: the South China Sea. Even with a new U.S. president, the disagreements that led to this moment won’t be easy to resolve. So how did this body of water become a major flashpoint in U.S.-China relations?

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Author: Brittney Deguara

The Ministry of Health is scrambling to find out whether New Zealand will be affected by new vaccine restrictions put in place by the European Union (EU).

The EU has hit pause on Covid-19 vaccine exports for two distributors, in a move labelled “concerning” but not surprising by one clinical microbiologist.

In a bid to ensure access to vaccines within Europe, the union has introduced a measure requiring exports to be authorised by member states before being shipped out.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/124102580/covid19-government-concerned-by-vaccine-export-restrictions
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Author: Auckland reporters

At least a dozen returnees have left New Zealand immediately after completing managed isolation, raising questions about whether the MIQ system was being abused.

This week, as investigations began into how three people linked to the Pullman Hotel managed isolation facility became infected with Covid-19, Australian authorities advised a dozen Pullman departees had touched down in Sydney. Three reportedly travelled on to Hong Kong.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/300218120/government-takes-dim-view-of-people-trying-to-game-managed-isolation
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Author: Eryk Bagshaw

An island 200 kilometres off the coast of China looms as the biggest international test of the Biden administration and Beijing’s relationship with the world. Characterised by its liberal democracy, resilient economy and the existential threat of invasion, Taiwan has lived under a cloud for more than half a century.

Its existence has seen Taiwanese and Chinese diplomats come to blows over a cake decorated with a Taiwan flag in Fiji, a Perth theatre forced to apologise to Chinese officials over a diplomatically sensitive performance and Qantas remove Taiwan from its list of country destinations.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300218195/why-taiwan-might-be-the-next-global-flashpoint
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